报告称牛津招“特别生”挣钱有损学校声誉_BEC初级作文

报告称牛津招“特别生”挣钱有损学校声誉

近期发布的一份内部调查报告指出，牛津大学通过招收有钱的“特别生”来谋取商业利益的行为会有损学校的声誉。牛津大学各学院招收的“特别生”平均成绩普遍都低于正式的牛津大学学生，他们每学期支付的学费高达13000英镑（约合人民币12.4万元），而英国学生每年的学费最高只有9000英镑。报告指出，牛津大学每年招收的特别生多达300人，通常都是由第三方机构进行招生。这些学生没有资格取得牛津大学的学位，但可以在简历中表明他们曾在牛津大学学习。报告指出，不清楚真相的人很难分辨这些特别生跟牛津正式学生的区别，而这些特别生项目看起来更像是纯粹的商业交易。

Oxford University risks undermining its reputation by accepting wealthy foreign students with poor grades for “purely commercial reasons”, an internal report warns.

The “associate students”, who generally have lower average grades than a typical Oxford undergraduate, pay as much as £13,000 a term and can stay for up to a year.

Although the students are not officially part of the university, senior figures said they “pose severe reputational risk” because their academic standards are “often low”.

报告称牛津招“特别生”挣钱有损学校声誉1

The report said that colleges, which are independent of the university and are free to set their own admissions policies, granted them admission for “purely commercial” reasons. The inquiry, prompted by concerns about the number of associate students and their links with Oxford, was held by a working group chaired by Prof Paul Slack, a former pro-vice-chancellor at Oxford.