b) Split into groups of four students. Pretend you are the TV panel. Elect a chairperson and decide which of the four roles each of you will take: Mrs/Mr Terrie/John HilI, the academic vice president: Mrs/Mr Lilian/Joseph Ubite, a professor in the department of education; Mrs/Mr Denis/Gary Bell, a grad student in education: Florence/Donald Burrel, an undergraduate.
c) Consider the questions under discussion and enact the panel:
1. How should higher education be organized, governed, directed? How much, if any, freedom and autonomy should there be for universities and institutes? 2. Students should share the responsibilities in a university and enjoy equal rights with the faculty. The vital question is to what extent and in what ways? 3. Pros and cons of written and oral examinations.
11. Do library research and write an essay on one of the given topics:
1. Education for national minorities. The problem of bilinguism in the USA and Russia.
2. The principal tasks of higher education.
3. Teacher training in the USA.
4. Problems in higher education in the USA and in Russia.