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Part III Reading Comprehension (40% )
Section A (30%)
Passage 3
A dispute that, according to Members of Parliament (MPs) , threatens the very survival of London Metropolitan University (London Met) , the capital’s biggest higher education institution, is spilling over onto London’s streets. Last week lorry drivers on Holloway Road in Islington watched as a group of students and staff marched in protest against a meeting of London Met’s governors.“ Save our Staff” and London Met on the Roper”，a reference to the university’s vicechancellor, Professor Brian Roper, screamed the banners.
The university, which has 34,000 students, has long attracted controversy for the militancy of its staff and students, but the latest row is a more serious matter. This crisis is over an attempt by the Higher Education Funding Council ( Hefc) to claw back more than ￡ 50m that London Met should not have received. It is believed that as many as 500 jobs could go as a result of the university having been overpaid for student dropouts since 2005, and the unions are furious, claiming at the same time that the university is being unfairly treated by Hefc but that neither the managers nor the governors have explored the alternatives to job cuts.
“ The University and College Union ( UCU) is very concerned that the Hefc regulations appear to discriminate against widening participation,” said a UCU spokesperson. “But we also feel very strongly about the fact that the management are not consulting the unions as they are required to do in law and that they have not considered alternatives like a freeze on new appointments. ”
One of the issues in dispute is whether students who did not take their assessments at the end of the year but were intending to take them the following year should be classified as drop-outs. Hefcconsiders them to have dropped out and says that its funding definitions apply to all universities regardless ;UCU believes they should not be classified in this way on the grounds that they need all the help they can get to complete the course.
The dispute has also hit the House of Commons. An early day motion signed by MPs says that the scale of the cuts —- an 18m reduction in teaching budgets and 38m in claw-backs for previous years—“ throws the future operability of the university into doubt at a time when education and training are vital to the capital’s economic health. ”
48.The dispute mentioned is partly between.
A.MPs and UCU
B.MPs and the Hefc
C.London Mefs staff and its governors
D.London Met’s students and lorry drivers
49.“London Met on the Roper” implies that.
A.Brian Roper is in power
B.London Met is at risk
C.London Met is facing a brain drain
D.Brian Roper is losing credibility
50.Hefc is to take back over ￡ 50m from London Met, believing that, for years, the latter.
A.has practiced low standards of teaching
B.has overpaid its governors and staff
C.has been unfair to some instructors
D.has had lots of students quitting school
51.The unions are angry with the school management because the latter.
A.has been indifferent to the possible job cuts
B.has been negligent in approving appointments
C.has unwisely widened the student enrollment
D.has unreasonably forced its 500 staff to leave
52.According to UCU, Hefc should include in its funding system the students who choose to take their assessments.
A. several timesB. outside school
C.in later yearsD. at a lower cost
53.It is likely that the House of Commons will.
A.urge Hefc to be reconciled to London Met
B.intervene concerning Hefc’s decisions
C.back up the governors of London Met
D.question London Met’s qualifications