The system of education in great britain

Ex. 7. PLACES FOR EDUCATION: HIGHER / FURTHER EDUCATION. Translate. 
1. The bare term ‘college’ can equally correctly be applied to individual schools (for 
example Eton College), individual constituents of a university (hence the angst 
amongst the Oxford and London colleges of the usage of ‘university college’ by 
what they regard as lesser institutions) and is colloquially used to mean the whole of 
higher education as in the phrase ‘I am going to college’. 2. I left school and within 
a few months became a sailing instructor. Initially, my parents thought I was taking 
a gap year before going to university. 3. Strapping plans for college (after gradua-
tion in 2003 from New York’s Professional Children’s School), she has only 
stepped up the pace of a career. 4. In one of those it-could-only-happen-in-America 
stories, two 18-year-old high-schoolers, Cris Barrett and Luke McCabe concluded a 
deal with First USA Corp., to pay their first year of college – to the tune of $40,000 
each. 5. The pair, who will attend two different California colleges, Pepperdine 
University in Malibu and the University of Southern California, have to work for 
their money. They’ve got to wear First USA clothing, appear publicly on and off 
campus, maintain at least a C average in their course work. 6. Turning to the text, 
most prospectus offer a flavour of the institution, an insight into life at the college, 
courses and components, selective statistical data on graduate employment suc-
cess, information on further actions, applications and open days. 7. The girls would 

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