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And welcome back to britain under the microscope

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Hello Alan

Hello

Everybody last time we talked about schools in england

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And now can we graduate from schools and go to universities

Absolutely in today's episode

Let's talk about english universities or british universities

So the same as the school episode

We're going to be mostly focused on universities in england

That's because allows schoschotish universities

They have slight different

Different stestem no problem

Last time we mentioned after secondary school

When you're sixteen

You passed agcse

Yeah

And then you can go to a six form or college

But tually you coop yeah

And then what happens

Then when you 're about eighteen

Then when you do a lelevel

Yeah

A level

I think for people who are interested in the english school system or want to go to a british university

You probably know a level

A level

有点像英国的这个高考吧

Yeah a little bit similar

If it's for university application

Then what are the subjects being tested in a level

What ae level you can choose which subjects you want to be tested on

Oh

So there's no compulsory causatheis

No compulsory subject

Like there is for gcsa

Where you have to learn english

Your math and science for aleleveels

You chochose se whichever subjects you're interested in

So you choose a few subjects

Yeah

So how many did you choose

I did free in the end

I did german history and ancient history

As well history and ancient history yeah and german

Wow

So you went for a history degree

Then you have my undergraduate degree was in classics

Uh classics so latin

An ancient greek

Yeah

Well impressive

Thanks

What is the university like for undergraduate program is it three years or four years

It's generally three years years um language courses um normally four years

Because you have to do up study gragraate program

Me well well

But more often not it's about years years

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And after the undergraduate studies

You have postgraduate

我们说研究生

Yes

And post graduate programs in the uk are generally much shorter than in china

A monsters degree is generally about a year

What about a doctoral i don't talall is about doctoral

I it's

It's still generally

Ok

It's generally shorter in the uk

So how do people in in england apply for universities

Can they apply for a different universities at the same time

Yet they can choose a selection of universities

And you apply for an undergraduate degree through something we call uksuuss so universities colcolleges at misthrough through that everyone has to go through that germany

Yet you go straighght through that you choose a number of interested universities

And they will choose to accept you for an interview

And do you have to decide what major you want to focus on when you apply for universities

Absolutely

That's because in england

We don't have the major or minor system

That's more american universities

But the way major and minor 是主修专业和副修修的专业

Yeah

So in the uk

You choose what you want to study from the very beginning

What if you find out

You don't like it can you switch

You can change a dedegree

But it's quite complicated sounds like it's very difficult to do it

It would quite ite fficulult do it

And how do you get into universities

You have a level obviously

But that's for everyone

That's not linked with university

Do they also have separate exams not really know more often not universities are more the line on interinterws uah so for example one university saw my grades

And they saw my personal statement

And they decided whether or not they wanted me to go along to the interview so in the uk

In england

A lot lights on the interview so it's just almost like a job interview similar

It's a make or break yeah

And what do they ask you in those interviews

That's quite sebeen a few years since i last went to university

But they most stasked me about my interests

About why i wanted to study this subject

And also a lot of general knowledge as well about the subject

And it was somewhat like a test

Test well uah just not written test yeah

Now let's talk about getting into university

After you get into university

What's the life like well the uniververity ststts in september so and when everyone ststarts to move into halls and hols are like dormitors

Yeet we call them hhols of residents um or just call them halls

And the first few weeks

People just get in used to university life so for first jaer students

They will have a fresherous week

Fresherous week for freshman yeah

Because in england

We don't really say freshmman softwer more yeah americamerican yeah american

But fresherous week is a week where people go around

They meet lots of new friends

Theare lots of parties

People start sign enough for clubs and societies

So people not really studying

They're more tting to know each other

It's kind of like orientation with yeah

But in the uk just a little bit more drinking

Bit more drinking

But what is the academic life like in a university

Do you have to go to a lot of lectures

A lot of classes to a extent

Yes

But in this i'll speak for my own experidy so going to university

We had one lecture a week for one particular course

And then you probably have one or two seminars based on that lecture a lot of it was cell study

So we go to a lecture

We have to do readad

We have to discuss sreadings in seminars s led by either the lectua

Um

That's what we would call a teachers

We call them lectuous

What about professors

Professors

There are fewer professors than there are in an american university

For example

That's because there are normally only one or two professors in a department

And professor is normally the head of the department

Um

So it's a different definition of professors

Yeah

You said apart from lectures

Then theis seminars

Yeah

Sometimes people think universities in other countries

They look like they don't have that many lectures

But there's still a lot of workload

Oh Yeah

That's in the reading

You're given a very very extensive reading list

And you're expected to read at least half for the books on that reading list well

And youexpeexpected to be able

Disdiscuss these as well in seminars

And that t's come back to the drinking part

You said students they will live in halls

Is that mandatevery one one needs to be living on campus or living in student residents

No

It's not mandatory in england

But it's something that's encouraged

Um

So may students are encouraged to live in horse for the first year

Because this is normally the first time

They've lived away from home

Um Um

It's about been bit more independence

Because it's also been away from your parents

As well more freedom

But a lot more freedom um it's that do people move out of the student residents gerally yeah

Yes

Second d urgeer

They either move back home

Or they move into a student flat with friends

It is that cheaper than living in halse

It can be sometimes it is sometimes it isn't

That's because in horse you would have your own room or you share with someone

But it's more common to have your own room and horse

They can never be self cated

Where you have access to a small kitchen

Yes

So you have to cook yourself yeah

Or they can can cated as well

So someone provides it was food yeah

That being little canteam

What most chinese think of english university british universties

The first two names that come to mind an oxford and cambridge yeah um in the uk

You call it oxfordge yeah uh

We will generally say them as oxydge and these are the two oldest universities in engengum ah the cram

The a cram and there's a lot of rivalry between the two as well um so for exexple people in oxbridge bridge look down on oxford and vice verser and a lot of this comes out in competitions

The most famous of which is the boat race

The boat race i'have heard of that yeah so oxygen cambridge um they would have a boat race along the terms every single year

But oxygcambribribut many many

You would know it's an a lead camsity um so there's a lot of criticism

That's these universities on what we call ivory towarers um

Every power we translated that directly in the 象牙塔

Yeah

Which means they're detached from the world

Yeah

Aren't we be able to relate to the real world

If you think about oxfordge they're not like your other universities a lot of them are based in london

But oxford seems to be in their own little world

Or absolutely they have their own traditions

Even their own terms

An oxford

An actututown

Yeah also in tenicicties ties

But they were in technical cities

But they're actually more like small towns

And they dominated by the university

So they must be be different from other

Other universiand they london based

Can't very very different for example

My university in london didn't really have a campus um

Your university is uclucl

Actually ucl will ranked up there with oxybribut

Then it is the top three more ucl university

London

There

Germany

Now vked along oxford

Cambridge

There is still so much to talk about about universties

But let's discall it a day for now

And we can discuss further in the advanced episode

Absolutely and many of our listeners you might be studying in england or planning to go to an english university

Or planning to send your kid to a university in england or in the uk

So let's know what you think

And let's know what do you think of the main differences between universities in england and universities in china

We'll be wafor your comcomuntil next time

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