Education

Contents
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION .................................................................................................................................... 1
1. A warning – local variations ............................................................................................................................... 1
2. Graduate.............................................................................................................................................................. 1
3. Level of degrees .................................................................................................................................................. 1
4. Types of education .............................................................................................................................................. 2
5. Types of course ................................................................................................................................................... 2
6. Forms of learning ................................................................................................................................................ 2
7. Financial aid for students .................................................................................................................................... 2
TỪ VỰNG BAND 9................................................................................................................................................... 3

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

1. A warning – local variations

This list of vocabulary comes from the British educational system. Different countries and
cultures frequently use their own terminology. For instance, in American English it is quite
possible to describe university as “college” or “school”. These words mean something quite
different in British English

2. Graduate
Graduate (verb): Graduate from university.

A graduate (noun): A graduate of Oxford university/ a graduate in economics.

A postgraduate (noun): He’s a postgraduate student.

An undergraduate (noun): Undergraduates receive a grant.

A fresher (noun): Life can be difficult for freshers.

(it can replace the word “student” note the different prepositions “of a university” and “from
university” and “in a subject” graduate is quite formal so in speaking you could use “I left
university” instead a fresher is a first year student, Americans use “freshman”)

3. Level of degrees
A first degree: The degree undergraduate do

A bachelor’s degree: A synonym for a first degree.

A master’s (degree): He is doing a master’s in politics.

A PhD or a doctorate: Only a few students go on to do a PhD.

4. Types of education

Higher education : University education

Further education: Normally for more vocational courses and may start from the age of 16.
Adult education: This is normally for non-degree programmes and often is part- time.

5. Types of course
A full- time degree course: Most students follow a full-time degree course.
A part –time degree course: If you are in full-time employment, a part-time may be more
suitable.
A distance course: In the age of the internet, more and more people are studying by distance.
A sandwich course: If you want practical experience, a sandwich course is the best option.

6. Forms of learning
Lecture: The students make notes and listen to lecturer. There may be a question and answer
session at the end.
Seminar: Often led by a student on a particular topic. Normally, the idea is everyone gets the
chance to talk. Often follows a lecture.
Tutorial: Sometimes teaching one-to-one with a tutor and sometimes the same as a seminar.

7. Financial aid for students

Scholarship: She won a scholarship for her dissertation. (a scholarship is won for academic
merit)

Grant: Because she came from a poor background, she was given a grant by local government.
(typically a grant is awarded either for a particular project or to allow a student to follow a
course)
Loan: Almost all British under-graduates now have student loans that they need to replay when
they start earning.
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No. Vocabulary Meaning Example

1 curriculum the full range of The curriculum in private schools is
subjects offered by a sometimes wider than in state schools,
school or group of because they have more resources
schools
2 pedagogical (experts in) education I admire pedagogical pioneers such as the
and teaching Victorian English thinkers who began free
schools for all children
3 formal exams where students
examinations answer set written or
spoken questions
without assistance

4 continuous giving students marks At my school, our grades were based 50/50 on
assessment for course work or formal examinations and continuous
projects, rather than assessment, which we thought was very fair
formal exams to all the children.

5 academic the measurable In my country, children enjoy school, but

achievement performance of a academic achievement is frankly quite low
student in marks, exam
results etc
6 further education after leaving Some governments encourage further
education school at the minimum education by allowing teenagers to claim
age benefits while they study.

7 higher education after age 18 When I pass IELTS, I plan to go on to higher

education at college or University, education in Canada and do a degree in
usually for a Degree engineering

8 group work study where pupils Personally, I think that group work enables
discuss and agree a lazy children to do less work than the eager
project together ones
9 teacher-led traditional lessons In my country, lessons are still very teacher-
lessons where the teacher led and interaction is rather limited.
delivers a long talk and
the students take notes

10 autonomous when a student learns At University, you are expected to be an

learning through independent autonomous learner far more than at High
study and research School, which is quite exciting for me.

11 to synthesise to use a variety of I use the Internet to synthesise my sources,

sources sources and combine and I always cite the origin of the
them in one project information. (to cite sources = to
acknowledge publicly)

12 rote-learning learning by repetition I used to think that rote-learning was a

and memorising items negative approach, but my recent experiences
teaching in a South African school have
changed my view.

13 to supplement to add extra content or My supervisor said that I should supplement

 material my essay with more examples of experiments.
14 to assimilate to absorb and I always use a dictionary when I study in
knowledge understand it English, to help me assimilate new phrases.

15 guided learning under the Lessons in Primary Schools should always

learning supervision of a teacher contain guided learning, otherwise the
children will lose focus
16 data- collecting information, Mobile phone companies employ many
gathering usually in numerical people in data-gathering Tasks, to see how
form users are using the phones and Internet

17 distance learning by the Internet My mother took an entire degree by distance

learning or email, rather than learning over a period of five years
face-to-face

18 self-study studying using a course There are many self-study guides to

without a teacher’s improving your English, and some of them
involvement are actually quite good.
19 to to decide whether one Children should not study using unsupervised
discriminate source is better or more Internet access, because they can’t
between reliable than another discriminate between the sources of
sources source information they find.

20 to sift to remove unwanted or I had to sift hundreds of pages of data to

information less useful information arrive at my conclusions when I did my thesis

21 to marshal to organise facts in In IELTS essays, you should marshal a few

facts support of an idea facts to support each idea in the argument.

22 an integral essential, central or Nutrition is an integral part of food sciences

part of the indispensable these days
syllabus
23 to work/study under the direction of a At college, I discovered I did not have to
under responsible person work under supervision all the time, and I was
supervision free to do independent research.