The employment prospects for college and university graduates
Choosing a university is of an exceptional importance because our decision will influence the march of events and will be a turning-point in our life. How not to mistake while choosing one?
While choosing university where we would like to study we think to what sphere of life we want to dedicate our life but unfortunately finishing it, it doesn’t give us guaranties that we will work in this field Because nowadays it’s very difficult to find a job. And sometimes students finishing universities can’t find anything connected with their profession and start to work in absolutely different field. The employers make rigid requirements for students that’s why in order to comply with their demands, one must be good grounded. That is why universities must prepare their graduates for all aspects of their adult life – world, leasure, personal relationship, creative activities, coping with money matters, independence, and parenthood. Nowadays the employers complain that young people coming into the workplace are weak in the basic skills of handwriting, grammar and spelling and even criticize them saying that they lack a basic understanding of simple maths.
The employers think that the standards in GB nowadays are not high enough. That job expectations of young people have increased but their degrees of abilities remained at the same level.
In Belarus today we face such a problem that students after finishing university can’t find the job because of the big number of graduates and who are just not ready to work. Because unfortunately nowadays university programs include a great variety of subjects that don’t play any practical role. And in the result students have to study a lot of useless material when later they don’t know how to apply it in their job.
Graduates want to find a job that can bring them satisfaction, stability, the chance to be promoted and a good salary. And a lot of them deserve it. But unfortunately after studying hard 5 years in University, they can’t find a good job because in our modern world it’s more important who you know and not what you know.
The problem of training school-teachers in GB/Belarus.
Many leading teachers claim that as many as two-thirds of new teachers in crucial subjects are not up to the job. They believe that teaching is in crisis today because senior staff are quitting early and entry requirements for the new staff are set too low. Another think-tank report showed that there are severe shortages in core subjects, a fivefold increase in unqualified teachers in a decade and soaring teacher turnover at comprehensives plagued by pupil indiscipline. It claims a government target-setting culture has made teaching unattractive to promising young entrants. This fact has forced ministers to attempt to increase the quantity of teachers without regard for their quality. Professors believe that only a third of trainees were fully up to the job and would make “really good, charismatic teachers”. They also say that a further third were mediocre, while rest were mediocre, while rest were so poor that pupils would be better off taught in larger classes by a skilled teacher. Professors also say that substandard teachers rarely failed to qualify because of weakness in the assessment system. They state that a crisis in the recruitment and retention of teachers of high quality, who love their subject, are good communicators and love teaching. Ministers had boasted of increasing the number of teachers by more than 10 per cent since 1977, but improved recruitment masked wide variations in the quality of staff, they warned.
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At primary level, just 45 percent of new teachers had two good A-levels. Only 39 per cent of would-be secondary maths teachers got low points in their degrees. The reports also found persistent recruitment problems in science and modern languages as well as schools with large numbers of badly-behaved pupils.
The number of “unqualified” teachers – those without European teaching certificates and instructors with subject knowledge but no qualifications – has risen from 2600 in 1997 to 11800 now.
The problem of acceleration.
Acceleration is the process of fast growing and physical development of children, if compared to the previous generations. For the first time such phenomenon was observed in the middle of the 19th century. And it is the characteristic of economically developed countries mainly.
Acceleration is a topical issue nowadays and any family should sooner or later face this problem. It is reflected in the text "Dance cards", in which the father compares himself with his son, when he was of the same age. We can see that the process of acceleration has become faster. So, in comparison with the previous generations children seem to grow up so quickly. Young people start to dress and look like adults at an early age. They use different sorts of cosmetics: creams, lotions, hairsprays and cologne to look attractive for their peers. They communicate with the opposite sex readily, without uneasiness (смущение). Whereas the father of the boy calls girls "the enemy gender" and says that they didn't dance with them outside of the class. Nowadays the young are better educated. They have more money to spend. As they grow up quicker they are not so dependent on their parents. They think more for themselves and don't blindly accept the ideas of their elders.
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But the young of today do have problems. They are considered adults long before their parents were and have much more freedom. Unfortunately, it can make life harder because teenagers are not adults. Although they look and act like adults, they lack experience and so often make mistakes which they don't understand. Besides, they come into contact with drugs, cigarettes, alcohol earlier.
It should be said that acceleration occurs everywhere, but it is more evident in economically developed countries, where there are better conditions of food and medical care for the population. So, the process of acceleration can be viewed as a sign of social progress, because the connection between development of the country and acceleration is evident.
In conclusion, I think that adolescence is harder now than it was for our parents, but it should be recognized that being a parent is also now more difficult.
Many people will agree with me when I say that our modern life can be characterized as the life of slapping pace. New inventions, technologies help us to save our time and energy, in other words, progress is everywhere. But what about people themselves? Children adopt adults' model of behavior, their habits and manners with an enormous speed. So when parents face the problem of acceleration they just nothing to do as to humble themselves. The characters of the story Dance Cards' vividly illustrate this.
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The father of 11-year-old son was rather astonished when he realized that his boy started going to dance parties. Only minutes ago he was a little boy but now he spends hours on his hair just to look smart for girls.
The fact that the son dances with actual girls was really unheard of when the father was 11. During his times men were too shy, too reserved. They were like collection of stud muffins who needed moral support just to come to girls. To maintain maximum separation - that was the main purpose of a dance with a girl and that was the natural order of things.
But now the situation has completely changed and his son is in his position. What is his inner state? No shyness, no timidity. His son is a brave, confident man who arouses pride in his father's heart.
So at different times there are different generations. All parents have to face the problem of acceleration and the main thing here, to my mind, not to avoid but to accept it.
21. My ideal of a teacher.
Everybody knows that teaching is a very specific and responsible job. A person must have enough courage to accept this responsibility. Teaching is also one of the most difficult professions. Usually people prefer to choose a more rewarding and better-paid job. But for the real teacher the main attraction is not money, but job satisfaction. An ideal teacher can say that he teaches because teaching is built on change. Even when the material he teaches is the same, he changes, &, more important, his students change. He also teaches because he likes the freedom to make his own mistakes, to learn his own lessons, to stimulate himself & his students. He says that one of the major discoveries of his professional life is that he teaches best not want he knows, but he wants to learn.
It’s common knowledge that success of school education depends mainly on the teachers, their professional skill, their attitude to the subject they teach and the kind of relationship they can establish with the pupils. Of course a teacher should be a highly educated person, strongly devoted to his work.
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So attitude to the pupils is always friendly and tolerant. Pupils don’t like the teachers who are very old-fashioned and strict and always enforce them doing their homework.
That’s why being a teacher is a hard job. And one of the heavy responsibilities of an ideal teacher is not only to teach children his or her subject but also give them some life’s lessons.
In order to become an ideal teacher one should go a long way. First of all to be an ideal teacher one should have the following qualities: he should be intelligent, hard-working, persistent, demanding, honest, broad-minded and with a good sense of humor. An ideal teacher should have deep knowledge in his subject and should love his profession. And he should impart love to his subject. Children should always attend his classes with enthusiasm because boredom is the bitterest enemy in the process of learning.
An ideal teacher is a teacher towards whom children feel affection, respect and adoration. A person can create a sweet world of dreams and imagination that children will never forget. An ideal teacher gives simple, timeless advices that children will bury in their minds forever. An ideal teacher should be not only a teacher but also a friend and a mother. She must teach not only academic subjects but she also has to explain how children should behave themselves in modern world that is not fret what others think of them but be themselves.
Being a teacher is being there, being present at the creation, when the clay begins to breathe. Teaching offers love. Not only the love of learning & of books & ideas, but also the love a teacher feels for that rare student who walks into the life of a teacher & begins to breathe. The American university teacher says that he teaches because, being around people who are beginning to breathe, he occasionally find himself catching his breath with them.
22. It ain't the roads we take
Plot: Shark Dodson ran away from home at the age of seventeen. He intended to go to New York City, hoping to enrich himself in the metropolis. He came to a fork in the road and had trouble deciding whether to go to the right or to the left.
He took the road to the right and enjoyed the prosperity that he desired. To show what would have happened if he had taken the road to the left, O. Henry resorts to a dream. Shark Dodson fell asleep at his desk in New York City and dreamed about the life that he would have led if he had taken the road to the left.
The character motivation is that he wants all the money to himself so he shoots and kills his friend to take all the money. Out of his dream when he is awake he is selling his shares for almost double the price he had bought them for and he is stealing all of his client's money = again – “kills his friend”.
The theme of this short story is that the character Shark Dodson is an evil and greedy man. Quote "The expression on Dodson face changed in an instant to one of cold ferocity ( жестокость ) mingled with inexorable cupidity ( алчность ). The soul of the man showed itself for a moment like an evil face in the window of a reputable house." This means that Dobson is evil and wants all the money he can possibly get by doing that he doubles the price.
Style:
This is an observer - author narrator.
That enters with theme because Dobson is evil and greedy and steals money from his clients while doing his deals then in his dream he is doing the same thing stealing money from that train.
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