The system of education in great britain

T
HE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN 
G
REAT 
B
RITAIN
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be coming home from college. His brother Martin would be there. Some other 
friends would be dropping in and out. 8. Proman, a self-assured Wellesley College 
grad, was hurt but not devastated. 9. Even some college grads have lost their first 
jobs. 10. He was, in other words, like a lot of college-age Egyptians of his time. 11. 
A female student with a history of mental illness stabbed eight of her hostile mates 
with a fruit knife as she ran amok in a college dormitory. 12. I’ve really been worried 
about the future of the Bush administration ever since I learned how few of George 
W.’s cabinet secretaries attended elite Ivy League colleges. 13. An offshoot of the 
Imerial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, ComMedica was formed in 
June 1999. 14. – You teach at business school? – I’d taught in English depart-
ments. Now I teach executive M.B.A.s at Columbia University. 15. We try to pro-
vide a caring environment for staff and students. 16. Young men often have to at-
tend university programs for up to seven years before they set off on their own, and 
in many case many simple can’t resist Mama’s love – not to mention her home cook-
ing. 17. The preacher in the church there is a graduate of the seminary at Southern 
Methodist University, Laura’s alma mater. 18. A strike by teachers has shut high 
schools in Iceland for nearly two months. The teachers’ union is seeking to bring 
the teachers’ salary in line with other, university-educated state employees. 19. 
Keio’s gaining reputation as an “academic hot pot” of fresh thinking, says Aegi 
Hosoda, dean of the university’s economics department. 20. So he graduated