时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(五)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


This week in our series on American higher education, we discuss programs that are available in the Middle East.


We talked last week about Michigan State University which opened a campus in August in the United Arab Emirates. MSU Dubai offers undergraduate degrees in areas including business, engineering, education and telecommunications. It also offers some graduate programs.


This October, Michigan State plans to open a pre-college program -- the MSU Dubai Academy. The aim is to help foreign students prepare to attend an American school.
 
A lecture hall at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar


Other American universities with campuses in the Middle East include Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth 1. They have campuses in Qatar. New York University plans to open a campus in Abu Dhabi in two thousand ten.


But the worldwide economic downturn is affecting the plans of some schools. For example, earlier this year Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania suspended its plans to open a campus in Abu Dhabi.


And George Mason University in Virginia is closing its campus in Ras Al Khaimah, another of the United Arab Emirates. One reason is the recession. But the campus Web site says that several issues made it impossible for the university to offer the same quality education as in the United States.


University Provost Peter Stearns tells us that the effort failed largely because of a dispute with their local partner in the campus. The disagreement involved the operating budget and academic control.


The George Mason campus opened in two thousand six. But student numbers have been disappointing. Peter Stearns says the campus had between two hundred fifty and three hundred students this year. He says more than fifty of them hope to attend the home campus in Fairfax, Virginia, in September.


And he says George Mason will remain involved in education in the Middle East as an adviser 2 to the American University in Dubai.


The Harvard Medical School Dubai Center was launched in two thousand four. It offers professional development and postgraduate 3 training but no degree programs. Harvard says it has no plans for a campus, but wants to help Dubai develop its Academic Medical Center.


And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Earlier reports in our Foreign Student Series are at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.



n.共和国,联邦,共同体
  • He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
  • Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
n.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
adj.大学毕业后的,大学研究院的;n.研究生
  • I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我没有写上我有硕士学位。
  • After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大学毕业后, 玛丽想在法学院从事研究工作。
学英语单词
aisle space
ALD-B
antisuiseptic sera
beauish
bederal
Bialorbagy
biohydrography
black-bourse
block fitting-out
blue crab
buccal cavity infection
Charles Pk.
class a repair
coagulum content
coal-cutter
complementary subspace
cougar
criminal bankraptcy petition
daemonettes
degree of decentralization
dolichoectasia
double metal relay
electron-stream amplifier
embalance
equilibrium mode
eringen
european economic area (eea)
Fanaye Diéri
fasciculus garcilis
flow, solder
fluid balance
glomus tortuosum
glost firing
goal-post
gold-dusts
grease monkeys
happi coat
herniate
heterotasithynic
hodotermopsis sj?stedti
humblebrags
interreflection ratio
Jaz Drive
kanbun
leading pile
liting
load-current supervision
long flowering period
longe-
Mariotto
member banks
Mesopithecus
microaddress
microsorium fortunei (moore) ching
modern optics
moisture ageing
Mozyr
Nauclea diderrichii
nongaussianities
notchwing
open-boat
pax romanas
PG3
pinged
play-yards
pneumoniac
posterior sphenoidal foramen
primary ion pair
protobioside
rail joint expander
rate of convergence
relativity theory
Saccharomyces epidermica
sanitary pipe laying
schmidbauer
scorer reliability
semitarie
sgab culture
sheathing nail
shrimp med
Shuli
sibiricine
sigers
snow climate
solid household refuse
spectrum character curve
spin-up
SSC-4
start-stop supervisor
straight sending system
strontium-arsenapatite(fermorite)
target return on sales
three high rolling mill
toll rotary connector
tongshan
toxicological
two-light candlestick
Vertumnus
welding-arc voltage
work-places
wring from
yeast industry