A prominent group of British university teachers this week called on the funding councils to stop supporting low-quality research and put money into improving university teaching instead. The National Academic Policy Advisory Group, which includes members from the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Conference of Medical Colleges, insists that all re- search money should be spent on world- class work.
The funding councils’ Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) judges the quality of research carried out in individual university departments, and rates it on a scale of l to 5. In the last assessment, in 1992, departments ranked as low as 2 received funding. The group says this should not happen in this years exercise. Funding councils have not yet announced how they will distribute money from now on.
In a report called Research capability of the University System launched this week the group claims that funds are needed to pay for the “pr
A. To hold back funds for level2 departments.
B. To help the teachers not active in research.
C. To encourage some teachers to be better educators.
D. To attract research money.
The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation: lunch with a friend and in a university class, respectively. He gave them an example and asked them how they would (1) if they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student (2) lateness as 19 minutes after the (3) time. On the other hand, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes.
In an American university., students are expected to arrive at the appointed (4) Classes not only begin, but also end at the (5) time in the United States. In the Brazilian class, only a few students left the class at noon; many (6) past 12:30 to discuss questions. (7) arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, (8) is staying late. The (9) for these differences is complicated. People from Brazilian and North American (10) have different feeling about late
A. arrives
B. attends
C. remains
D. stays
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