首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable sch
The need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable sch
admin
2013-02-03
109
问题
The need for a satisfactory education is more important than ever before. Nowadays, without a qualification from a reputable school or university, the odds of landing that plum job advertised in the paper are considerably shortened. Moreover, one’s present level of education could fall well short of future career requirements.
It is no secret that competition is the driving force behind the need to obtain increasingly higher qualifications. In the majority of cases, the urge to upgrade is no longer the result of an insatiable thirst for knowledge. The pressure is coming from within the workplace to compete with ever more qualified job applicants, and in many occupations one must now battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already holds.
Striving to become better educated is hardly a new concept. Wealthy parents have always been willing to spend the vast amounts of extra money necessary to send their children to schools with a perceived educational edge. Working adults have long attended night schools and refresher courses. Competition for employment has been around since the curse of working for a hying began. Is the present situation so very different to that of the past?
The difference now is that the push is universal and from without as well as within. A student at a comprehensive school receiving low grades is no longer as easily accepted by his or her peers as was once the case. Similarly, in the workplace, unless employees are engaged in part-time study, they may be frowned upon by their employers and peers and have difficulty even standing still. In fact, in these cases, the expectations is for careers to go backwards and earning capacity to take an appreciable nosedive.
At first glance, the situation would seem to be laudable; a positive response to the exhortations of politicians for us all to raise our intellectual standards and help improve the level of intelligence within the community. Yet there are serious ramifications according to at least one educational psychologist. Dr. Brendan Gatsby has caused some controversy in academic circles by suggesting that a bias towards what he terms "paper excellence" might cause more problems than it is supposed to solve. Gatsby raises a number of issues that affect the individual as well as society in general.
Firstly, he believes the extra workload involved is resulting in abnormally high stress levels in both students at comprehensive schools and adults studying after working hours. Secondly, skills which might be more relevant to the undertaking of a sought-after job are being overlooked by employers not interviewing candidates without qualifications on paper. These two areas of concern for the individual are causing physical as well as emotional stress.
Gatsby also argues that there are attitudinal changes within society to the exalted role education now plays in determining how the spoils of working life are distributed. Individuals of all ages are being driven by social pressures to achieve academic success solely for monetary considerations instead of for the joy of enlightenment. There is the danger that some universities are becoming degree factories with an attendant drop in standards. Furthermore, our education system may be rewarding doggedness above creativity; the very thing tutors ought to be encouraging us to avoid. But the most undesirable effect of this academic paper chase, Gatsby says, is the disadvantage that "user pays" higher education confers on the poor, who invariably lose out to the more financially favoured.
Naturally, although there is agreement that learning can cause stress, Gatsby’s comments regarding university standards have been roundly criticized as alarmist by most educationists who point out that, by any standard of measurement, Britain’s education system overall, at both secondary and tertiary levels, is equal to that of any in the world.
In some jobs, the position you hold must be reapplied for.
选项
A、Y
B、N
C、NG
答案
A
解析
文章第二段最后一句提到in many occupations one must battle with colleagues in the reshuffle for the position one already hosts,“在很多职业中,一个人要与同事竞争来保住自己已经拥有的职位”,因此该说法正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/6GyK777K
本试题收录于:
A类竞赛(研究生)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
A类竞赛(研究生)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Thereisnomagicrecipeforsuccess,butthereisoneessential【C1】ing______:therightattitude.Withoutapositiveattitude
Whichpictureshouldreplacethequestionmark?
WhilebaseballisoftendescribedasthenationalsportoftheUnitedStatesofAmerica,itprobablydevelopedfromaneighteent
TonyWheeleristhemanbehindtheLonelyPlanetguidebooks,bookswhicharelovedandhatedinequalmeasure.It’shardtopin
Whenyourkidsareadvisedto“getaneducation”iftheywanttoearnadecentincome,theyaretoldonlyhalfofthetruth.Wha
Oneoftheinterestingthingsaboutlanguagesisthewaytheychangeovertime.InEnglish,everythingfromspellingtovocabula
ThenumberofresidentswhosenativelanguageisnotEnglishhasrisen34%inthelasttenyearstoapproximately53million,ac
Itcanbeshown,forexample,thatEnglishandGreekarerelated.______,theygobacktoacommonancestor.
SummaryListentothepassage.Forquestions26—30,completethenotesusingnomorethanthreewordsforeachblank.Identityt
随机试题
甲公司分立为乙公司和丙公司。分立前,甲公司尚有未到期的债权50万元和债务30万元,债权债务情况分别为:债务人丁欠甲30~-5亡、债务人戊欠甲20万元;甲欠债权人己20万元货款、欠债权人庚10万元运费。在分立过程中,乙公司和丙公司对甲公司的债权及债务达成协议
有关缺氧对细胞代谢的影响,下列哪项描述是错误的
解表透疹方的结构一般不包括
因技术进出口合同发生纠纷的,合同当事人要求保护权利的诉讼时效期间为()年。
A公司2013年至2016年与投资性房地产有关的业务如下(不考虑土地使用权):(1)2013年8月3日与乙公司签订租赁合同,将一栋自用办公楼出租给乙公司,租期为3年,年租金为200万元。2013年9月30日为租赁期开始日。假定租赁期内每年年末支付租金
编年体史书《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》的作者是()。
雾霾:污染:生病
设a=2,b=3,c=4,d=5,表达式Nota
UnpopularSubjects?Isthereaplaceintoday’ssocietyforthestudyofuselesssubjectsinouruniversities?Justover100
WheredoesMr.CampbellarriveonTuesday?
最新回复
(
0
)