首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Passage Two (1) Social mobility in the U. K. could be reversed unless the government and universities make changes to encou
Passage Two (1) Social mobility in the U. K. could be reversed unless the government and universities make changes to encou
admin
2022-09-27
31
问题
Passage Two
(1) Social mobility in the U. K. could be reversed unless the government and universities make changes to encourage and pay for more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to take degrees, according to the government’s independent adviser on the issue. Alan Milburn said in a report that social mobility was now "flatlining at best" after gains in the early part of the last decade.
(2) "Given the headwinds that universities and higher education institutions are facing—tuition fees, student caps, public funding constraints—there’s a real danger things will go backwards, rather than forwards," Milburn told The Guardian. "As the economy changes, who gets into university does become a very important driver of social mobility. "
(3) The report recommends changes across government policy and the way universities select, fund and encourage students from more disadvantaged areas, who he argues have been shown to do better at university than pupils from private schools with the same grades. Suggestions include offering all students from poorer backgrounds an interview and considering offering places to those with lower grades. Acknowledging pressure on public spending during the recession, Milburn calls on all parties to commit to government funding for higher education rising from 1.2% currently to 1.5% , the average for the OECD group of advanced economies.
(4) The former Labour MP and cabinet member, who was the first person in his family to go to university, said social mobility created "fallers as well as risers", echoing candid comments by the Liberal Democrat business secretary, Vince Cable, who told an audience on Wednesday that social mobility was often a " two-way street" and "a zero-sum game". "We want everyone to move up and no one to move down," said Cable. "But in the real world not everyone can be a star. Social mobility is often embodied in the comprehensive school pupil the top 10.
who reaches Oxbridge, but what about the school dropout who finished up in a lowly menial job? That is also social mobility. But this is surely what meritocracy is all about—success through hard work, not through birth. "
(5) Milburn’s report says universities spend more than £400m to soften the impact of higher tuition fees on students from poorer backgrounds, but says there is little evidence that it is well spent, and calls for deep changes. It advocates that money is spent not just on reducing fees but helping to fund poorer students, and calls for a new version of the scrapped Educational Maintenance Allowance, intended to help poorer pupils remain in school to do A-levels. Universities are asked to agree to use "contextual data" when assessing applications to give pupils from worse schools a better chance, even if they have lower grades. Because some universities— especially from the Russell Group of higher ranked institutions—have objected to such a move in the past, Milburn offers them alternatives, including running new programmes to assess and prepare school-leavers, such as summer schools, and guaranteeing interviews to pupils from schools in disadvantaged areas.
(6) Ministers are urged to scrap a cap on student numbers, which Milburn calls an artificial limit on aspiration, and to better explain the tuition fees policy, under which students start repaying their loans when their earnings rise above a certain threshold. One option would be to rename the policy a graduate tax, which it is "in all but name" , says Milburn, though he says it might be too late for that. He also calls for more funding for post-graduates, probably through upfront loans, saying the issue is "in danger of becoming a social mobility timebomb".
(7) The proposal to re-introduce the EMA was widely welcomed by social and education organizations, including the children’s charity Barnados, which said it had evidence that children were having to choose between the cost of breakfast and their bus fare to school. The left-of-centre IPPR thinktank welcomed the report’s suggestion that "we should look at applying the lessons of the pupil premium in schools to the university sector, with more funding being provided to institutions if they recruit from disadvantaged backgrounds".
What is this passage mainly concerned?
选项
A、Education funds need to flow.
B、Education needs new policy and reform.
C、Children pay more premiums in schools, so there are difficulties in their lives.
D、Children were recruited from disadvantaged backgrounds, so they are very poor.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/dqXMFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
UnderstandingDepressionI.Misunderstandingofdepression—Mistakenlybelievethatdepressioncomesfrom【T1】______【T1】______—
TimeManagementforCollegeStudentsTimeyouspentinhighschoolistotallydifferentfromthatincollege.Itisacritic
Nowlet’stakealookatthefirstapproach,thatis,meaningis【T1】______.Doesaworkofliteraturemeanwhattheauthorinten
A、Itcantakeuptothreeyearsforabananatreetobearfruitifitistakencareof.B、Youcanharvestseveralbunchesofban
AShortHistoryoftheOriginsandDevelopmentofEnglishI.Origins—datedbackto【T1】______ofthreeGermanictribes:【T1】____
A、Colorofthecover.B、Accompanyingtapes.C、Titleandauthor.D、Unimportantdetails.C男士让Sally谈谈有什么书可以推荐给关注英语发音的学生。Sally提到一本书,
A、Problemsintheelectoralprocess.B、Formationofanewgovernment.C、Prematureannouncementofresults.D、DemocracyinAfghan
PASSAGEFOURWhatdidMr.Galili’smovingfromAmsterdamtoGroningenturnouttobe?
(1)HarryTrumandidn’tthinkhissuccessorhadtherighttrainingtobepresident."PoorIke—itwon’tbeabitliketheArmy,"h
DavidCameronhasnoticedthathealthandsafetyregulationsstopschoolstakingchildrenoutonfieldtrips,outdooractivitie
随机试题
根据轴所受的载荷不同,可将轴分为哪几类?
A.癫病B.假神C.狂病D.痫病E.失神患者烦躁不宁,呼号怒骂,打人毁物,不避亲疏,属于()。
对于多孔桥梁,应根据桥梁技术状况检验评定情况,选择2~3孔进行承载能力检测评定。()
投资利润率是建设项目在生产期内()。
流动性偏好理论指出货币需求是由三类动机决定的,其中包括()。
与纸介质出版物相比,电子出版物的审读不同在于()。
所给四个选项中与示例图形有共性的一项是:
要对社会现象作出正确的分析判断,即使是地区性的,也一定要走进现实社会中进行调查研究,绝不能凭空臆度。要明白事情的因果关系,建立有关的理论,不能没有现实资料,以供验证理论之用。所以()。
为了每秒钟发生一次计时器事件,可以将Interval属性设置为()。
Practicallyspeakingtheartisticmaturingofthecinemawasthesingle-handedachievementofDavidW.Griffith.BeforeGriffith
最新回复
(
0
)