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Global Education and Stats
Global Education and Stats
This term describes the global trend of universities building international partnerships and recruiting students worldwide.
What is internationalization?
This tense is used to state general facts and permanent situations in academic writing such as :” Most countries want a greater proportion of their population to go to university.”
What is Present Simple ?
This is the coordinating conjunction is to add similar information when linking two independent clauses together.
What is and?
This is the education that people receive after finishing secondary school, usually at a university or college.
What is Tertiary education?
This specific rapid-reading technique involves sweeping your eyes over a text to locate a precise piece of data, such as numbers,a statistics.
What is scanning ?
These are three oldest European university locations mentioned in the text , achieve over 900 years ago.
What are Bologna,Paris and Oxford ?
This is the correct form of the verb “increase “ in the sentence: “The number of international students is steadily ___________.”
What is increasing? (Present Progressive)
In the basic clause structure S+V+O, this is the grammatical role played by the word “colleges” in : “Peking university has 30 colleges.”
What is object?
This is the noun form of the verb expand, used in the sentence. “The ______ of the university will create new jobs .”
What is expansion?
This reading strategy means moving quickly through a text to capture the overall gist, main idea ,or general purpose without focusing on the fine details.
What is skimming?
This specific percentage represents the share of today’s global market for international higher education.
What is 34 %?
This tense is used to describe completed historical events such as :”Yale College changed its name in the 18th century.”
What is Past Simple?
This coordinator is used to introduce an opposing idea or contrast
What is but ?
This academic verbs means to give someone support , confidence , hope to do something, as in :”My teacher ________ me to study science.”
What is encourage ?
Scan the statistics in the text to identify the the exact percentage of academic staff members in UK universities who come from foreign countries.
What is over 40% ?
This is approximate number of millions of students worldwide who travel abroad to study each year.
What is 4 million?
Complete this sentence using the Past Progressive form of become.”By the 1990s, popular Western universities __________________,more financially driven?
What is were becoming?
This is a sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses joined together. Each independent clause expresses a complete idea and can stand alone as a separate sentence.
What is compound sentence?
This noun describes the strategic partnership or union formed between different organisations or universities.
What is alliance?
When you skim an academic text by looking at the headings, subheadings and the first sentences of paragraphs , you are searching for these two key elements.
What are the topic and the purpose ? ( or main ideas)
Western universities began moving towards becoming highly commercial, “financially-driven” institutions during this decade.
What are the 1990s?
This is the verb tense used to describe the temporary situations , changing and developing circumstances.
What is Present Progressive?
This is a word, phrase, or clause that provides additional information about the circumstances of an action or situation.
What is Adverbial?
This word describes an action, decision, or process that is primarily motivated by financial considerations, such as profit, cost reduction, or economic benefit.
What is financially-driven ?
This is the process of recording the most important information, ideas, facts, and key points from a lecture, text, or presentation in a concise and organized form.
What is taking notes ?