Vocabulary & Grammar : Education-news

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/universities-too-reliant-on-foreign-student-fees-853522.html

Vocabulary
- standards watchdog
- arbitrary (determined or marked by whim or caprice rather than reason)
- a rotten system
- rotten = abominable, bad, carious, corrupt, crooked, decayed, decomposed, depraved, dishonest, disintegrated, evil, festering, fetid, foul, inferior, lousy, nasty, offensive, perished, putrefied, putrid, rank, smelling, sour, spoiled, tainted, unlucky, unpleasant, unsound, vicious
- plagiarism = theft


Grammar
- Britain's universities are becoming increasingly (Siri's example : The oil price is becoming increasingly in 2008)
- a standards watchdog has warned (Siri example : The giant US pharmaceutical company ,Pfizer,has warned by US FDA in order to declared a crucial information of new drug)
- "The way degrees are classified is rather a rotten system," Mr Williams added(Siri example :The researches are classified by the authors)
- He also argued that university lecturers were being told to "mark positively" (Siri example: The new LondonMet students were being told by admission department to attend the introduction session in the afternoon)

Top 10 universities for overseas (non-EU) student recruits in 2006-7
1 Manchester 2,815
2 University of the Arts, London 2,675
3 London Metropolitan 2,665
4 Nottingham 2,610
5= Uni College London
5= Warwick 2,320
7 Sunderland 2,220
8 Imperial College London 2,160
9 Northumbria 1,960
10 Middlesex 1,700