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Those Europeans who are tempted, in the light of the dismal scenes in New Orleans this fortnight, to downgrade the American challenge should meditate on one world: universities. Five years ago in Lisbon European officials proclaimed their intention to become the world’ s premier "knowledge economy" by 2010. The thinking behind this grand declaration made sense of a sort: Europe’ s only chance of preserving its living standards lies in working smarter than its competitors rather than harder or cheaper. But Europe’ s failing higher-education system poses a lethal threat to this ambition.
Europe created the modern university. Scholars were gathering in Paris and Bologna before America was on the map. Oxford and Cambridge invented the residential university: the idea of a community of scholars living together to pursue higher learning. Germany created the research university. A century ago European universities were a magnet f
A. a review of a fading system and the relevant solution.
B. about the globalization of knowledge economy.
C. a survey of news approaches to higher education.
D. about merits of the European higher-education system.
Text 2 Those Europeans who are tempted, in the light of the dismal scenes in New Orleans this fortnight, to downgrade the American challenge should meditate on one world: universities. Five years ago in Lisbon European officials proclaimed their intention to become the world’ s premier "knowledge economy" by 2010. The thinking behind this grand declaration made sense of a sort: Europe’ s only chance of preserving its living standards lies in working smarter than its competitors rather than harder or cheaper. But Europe’ s failing higher-education system poses a lethal threat to this ambition. Europe created the modern university. Scholars were gathering in Paris and Bologna before America was on the map. Oxford and Cambridge invented the residential university: the idea of a community of scholars living together to pursue higher learning. Germany created the research university. A century ago European universities were a magnet for scholars and
A. a review of a fading system and the relevant solution.
B. about the globalization of knowledge economy.
C. a survey of news approaches to higher education.
D. about merits of the European higher-education system.
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