Student A

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 627.

Split into groups of four students.

Cast

Situation

THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION

Consumer skills

ROLE-PLAY

University Degrees

Secondary School Qualifications

Table 1

Secondary school (at age 16): GCSEs[31], usually in six or more subjects.

Secondary school (at age 18): A levels[32], usually in three subjects.

First Degrees:

BA (Bachelor of Arts) / BSc (Bachelor of Science)

Higher Degrees:

MA (Master of Arts) / MSc (Master of Science)

PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate of Education)

MBA (Master of Business Administration)

MEd (Master of Education)

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

You consider the costs and tradeoffs connected with a decision to go to college.

What you must decide:

Make sure whether college education is worth the expense taking into consideration immediate and future personal growth, economic well-being and projected lifetime earnings.

Student A

Student B

Student C

Student D

You assume that an understanding of opportunity costs and tradeoffs is important personally to high school students, as well as everyone else. Sooner or later high school students must make choices about what to do after graduation. The questions you try to clear out are: What is the general relationship between a person's education and that individual's earning power? What is a college degree worth? How valuable is post-college schooling? Remind your partner of a proverb: “Easier said than done”.

Make use of the helpful phrases:

ö I say, ... .

ö To put it briefly, ... .

ö You have a point there, but ... .

ö Frankly speaking, I assume that ... .

ö It's an open secret that ... .