This is the VOA Special English Education Report.EDUCATION REPORTThis week in our Foreign Student Series, we return to a subject we have discussed before: financial aid. This time we are going to talk about financial aid in the form of assistantships, grants, scholarships and fellowships.An assistan...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A college is more than just classrooms and laboratories. It represents a working community with a population that can be greater than that of many towns. And college communities have to deal with many of the same issues and problems as the general soc...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. We have talked all about the college admissions process. Now we move on to college life once you get accepted to a school. The first thing you need is a place to live. Th...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.The legal age for drinking alcohol in the United States is twenty-one. Underage drinking is a crime but also a common part of college social life. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we look at alcohol policies at American colleges and universiti...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Not all college teachers are professors. In fact, not even all professors are full professors. Many are assistant or associate or adjunct professors. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we sort out academic titles at American colleges and univers...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Our Foreign Student Series continues this week with two examples of military colleges in the United States. One is the Virginia Military Institute. V.M.I. is a public, four-year military college in Lexington, Virginia. It accepts women as well as men....
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.This week, in our series for students who want to study in the United States, we tell about the United States Military Academy at West Point.Cadet basic trainingWest Point is a four-year school in New York State that educates future Army officers. The...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.A listener from China named Walker would like information about agricultural programs in the United States. This is our subject today in week number thirty of our Foreign Student Series. About one hundred colleges and universities began as public agri...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today, we answer a question from Martin in Mexico City. He asks about the kinds of degrees that students can earn at an American college or university.American higher education offers degrees in many areas of study. A community college student earns a...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Today we continue our discussion of the academic degrees offered by American colleges and universities. Last week, we talked about the associate, bachelor's and master's degrees. The highest degree that a student can earn is a doctorate. Some doctorat...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.Two listeners, Youngmin Kim in South Korea and Nestor Gastelo in Peru, would like us to talk about pharmacy education in the United States. This will be the subject today in our Foreign Student Series. "Pharmacists are health professionals who assist ...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.April 23, 2007: A moment of silence observed for each of the 32 Virginia Tech shooting victimsClasses began again at Virginia Tech on Monday, one week after the shootings by a student. Seung-Hui Cho, an English major in his final year of college, kill...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.We continue our Foreign Student Series this week with two questions that we received. Anatolii Artamonov, a university student in Ukraine, would like to know about student exchange programs in the United States. Anatolii would especially like to know ...
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. About one in twenty adults in the United States cannot read English.A new federal study shows that adults made little progress in their reading skills between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand three.out of focus man in chair reading b...
I'm Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Education Report.Three times each year, the Semester at Sea program takes more than six hundred college students sailing around the world.Since nineteen sixty-three, almost forty thousand students have taken part.The University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsyl...
I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. President Bush has proposed to increase the study of foreign languages in American schools.President Bush on Jan. 5 at the U.S. University Presidents Summit on International EducationThe new plan is called the National Security Language ...
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Education Report. About three million young people in the United States are involved in cheerleading.People often think of cheerleaders when they think of school spirit.Cheerleaders are a tradition at football games and other sports events.They help g...
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Education Report.Medical research is leading American education officials to consider having high school classes start later in the morning.The research says teenagers are more awake later at night than adults are.When teenagers stay up late at night ...
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Education Report.Every year, the American Library Association honors artists and writers of books for children.One of these honors is the Newbery award.It is named for a book seller in England in the eighteenth century, John Newbery.The Newbery Medal...
This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Education Report.Sixty percent of high schools in the United States now offer college-level work through Advanced Placement courses.Two times as many students take A.P. courses today compared to ten years ago. The College Board administers the program...
