EDUCATION REPORT - As We Look to the Future / Our Foreign St

EDUCATION REPORT - As We Look to the Future / Our Foreign Student Series Comes to an End
By Nancy Steinbach

Broadcast: Thursday, June 02, 2005

I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.

We have the fortieth and final part of our Foreign Student Series. We hope our series has helped students who want to come to the United States to study at a college or university. All the reports are on our Web site; we will give the address later.

We discussed the admissions¹ process, and the costs of higher education. We also discussed ways to seek financial aid.

Other reports discussed the documents needed before a student can enter the United States. We told about changes in government rules after the terrorist² attacks of September eleventh, two thousand one.

We also discussed ways for students to receive an American education without the need to leave their home country. We told about programs offered by computer and through local classes.

Other reports told about schools with many foreign students, like the University of Southern California and Purdue University. We also told about schools that are not as well known, and about programs for the disabled.

Other reports discussed medical schools, agricultural colleges, military colleges, and master of business administration³ programs. And we discussed student life, such as housing⁴, social activities and the job of a teaching⁵ assistant.

We talked about the need for things like health insurance. And we talked about the need to begin to prepare for all this at least two years before you want to start classes in America.

Lastly, we talked with some foreign students at the University of Wisconsin to ask them for their advice.

All forty of the reports in our series can be found on the Internet at www.tingroom.com. The easiest way to find them is to enter "Foreign Student" in quotation⁶ marks in the search box.

Another site you might want to visit is educationusa.state.gov. EducationUSA is the State Department guide to higher education. Again, the address is educationusa.state.gov. Also, there are more than four hundred American educational advising centers worldwide where you can get more information.

We thank everyone who sent us questions for our Foreign Student Series. And we hope you continue to listen in the weeks to come to learn more in general about the American education system.

This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.  I'm Gwen Outen.

1 admissions   

n.准许进入( admission的名词复数 )；入场费；入场券；承认

参考例句：

• a need-blind admissions policy 不考虑经济能力的录取政策
• He's the Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan. 他是Michigan大学的新生注册主任。 来自辞典例句

2 terrorist   

n.恐怖主义者，恐怖分子

参考例句：

• Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪，我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
• The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。

3 administration   

n.经营，管理；行政，行政机关，管理部门

参考例句：

• Who is in charge of the administration of your company?你们公司的行政工作由谁负责？
• The teachers are responsible to the school administration.教师向学校行政负责。

4 housing   

n.房屋，住宅；住房建筑；外壳，外罩

参考例句：

• Do you think our housing sales will turn around during this year?你认为今年我们的住宅销路会好转吗？
• The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来，房屋的销售量日趋减少。

5 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

6 quotation   

n.引文，引语，语录；报价，牌价，行情

参考例句：

• He finished his speech with a quotation from Shakespeare.他讲话结束时引用了莎士比亚的语录。
• The quotation is omitted here.此处引文从略。