时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2008年(五)月


英语课

Education Report - Recruiters Help US Colleges Find Foreign Students
Placement companies may be paid by colleges or students -- or both, raising concerns about possible conflicts of interest. First of two parts. Transcript 2 of radio broadcast
22 May 2008


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

College prices in the United States have been rising faster than other prices for thirty years or more. Recently many of the nation's top colleges have agreed to increase their financial aid.

But one group often has to pay the full price for college: foreign students. This may help explain why colleges are making greater efforts to recruit 1 them.

Large universities are likely to use their own representatives. But smaller schools may work with independent recruiters.

An example is Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania.

It has about one hundred foreign students, mostly from Asia. It offers foreign students a savings 3 of one-fifth off its published price if they apply through Study Group Holdings.

This placement company operates the Web site go-study.com.

Albright's international student counselor 4, Nicole Christie, says the company is paid from the money that the students pay the college. Study Group looks for qualified 5 students and rates their English skills before they apply.

But foreign students themselves often pay recruiters. The recruiters help them write applications, get recommendation 6 letters and prepare for admissions tests. And they might help students prepare for getting a visa to study in the United States.

Recruiters can also work for both students and colleges. Some education officials call this a conflict of interest. They wonder how recruiters can find a school that is truly right for a student when certain colleges are paying them. Officials also warn that like any other business, there is a risk of dishonesty.

Recruiters say they provide a useful service that is legal in the United States. They say the colleges they work for are accredited 7 and provide a good education but may not be widely known.

Recruiting 8 of foreign students has been the subject of recent stories in the Chronicle of Higher Education and in the New York Times.

We are interested in hearing about experiences with college recruiters. Send us your comments and we may use them in a future report. Write to special@voanews.com and please include your name and country.

We'll have more on this subject next week. So write to special@voanews.com. We also have our Foreign Student Series online with information about how to get into an American college. Go to voaspecialenglish.com and click on the link at the bottom of the page.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Jim Tedder 9.



n.招聘,新兵,新成员;v.恢复,补充,招募
  • The country's first act would be to recruit for the navy.国家的第一个行动是为海军征募新兵。
  • This is a nationwide campaign to recruit women into trade unions.这是一次吸收妇女参加工会的全国性运动。
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书
  • A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
  • They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
n.顾问,法律顾问
  • The counselor gave us some disinterested advice.顾问给了我们一些无私的忠告。
  • Chinese commercial counselor's office in foreign countries.中国驻国外商务参赞处。
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
n.推荐(信)建议,优点,长处
  • I wrote him a good recommendation.我为他写了一封很好的推荐信。
  • This method deserves recommendation.这种做法值得提倡。
adj.可接受的;可信任的;公认的;质量合格的v.相信( accredit的过去式和过去分词 );委托;委任;把…归结于
  • The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century. 通常认为,蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
  • Only accredited journalists were allowed entry. 只有正式认可的记者才获准入内。
招聘( recruit的现在分词 ); 吸收某人为新成员; 动员…(提供帮助); 雇用
  • We are recruiting a sales manager with responsibility for the European market. 我们正在招聘负责欧洲市场的销售经理。
  • "Hoist the recruiting flag and hungry men will come. “插起招军旗,就有吃粮人。”
n.(干草)翻晒者,翻晒机
  • Jim Tedder has more. 吉姆?特德将给我们做更多的介绍。 来自互联网
  • Jim Tedder tells us more. 吉姆?泰德给我们带来更详细的报道。 来自互联网
标签: voa 慢速英语
学英语单词
abscessed teeth
adamellite
administer relief
almas
aul wan
barytons
Batu Pulai, Sungai
be skilled at
beef tongues
borefest
cancer pathophysiology
carotid arch
catch a disease
centrifugal pendulum
civitated
country of residence
cromoglycate
decision support system - DSS
dial - up access
down price
ekalead
electronic pick up
emoia atrocostata
epithallus
fairy circles
feel your way
ferroelectric non-volatile memory
final working drawings
firedamp migration
go on errands
gurdfish
hemicontinuous operator
herborises
honeycomb radiator
incidence point
indolent
internal cylindrical gauge
IPG
japann
judicial separation
jump out of skin
Karkar I.
kissins
koat
la charite
Leontopolis
ligg. intercuneiformia plantaria
light repeater
linkage analysis
location variable type
longspur
magnetoresistances
marine electric power station
marine energy resource
marine refraction seismic survey
master scheduler
mercuric lactate
mercury ballast of gyrocompass
methylal resin
meyers
michelman
Molotor cocktail
monologists
multi-valued displacement
multistage scrubber
nit-pickers
Nocardia actinoides
nonfashion
nonintersecting lines
observance of good seamanship
orbifolding
ordered scattering
parental involvement
plancks
plite
pneutronic ammeter
polyether diols
purchase of goods
radial inlet
readily available
receiver operating characteristics curve
regentess
Retina Display
rinsed-out
Routh array table
Sambang
satellisation
saturn-day
sawhney
scrikes
seam-welding equipment
self compatible
semen diluter
semianaerobic condition
Sid Caesar
sphagna
subsurface burst
superhigh frequency
talk down to
tidly
unheal
xenocrystal