Higher education abroad.

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Higher Education
Higher education plays an important role in the life of any country as it provides the country with highly-qualified specialists for future 1) d__________ and progress. It trains people to become teachers, engineers, lawyers, doctors and other professional workers. After graduating from the university they may go on with their study and 2) r__________ and may get a still higher degree. Education is the way to success.

Education is a process through which culture is preserved, knowledge and 3) s__________ are developed, values are formed, and information is exchanged. In all the industrial countries 4) s__________ of __________ are steadily changing; this means that the kind of education, which was good enough thirty years ago, is not necessarily good for them today.

The serious need to find ways and means of ensuring continuous and thorough adoption of the universities to 5) c__________ needs in our rapidly changing world is widely recognized. And this means that styles of teaching, quality of learning materials and organization of the university itself have to be continuously 6) b__________ u__________ and improved.

Besides, knowledge and information which comes through the 7) m__________ m__________ must also be taken into consideration. This information explosion has affected every field of study, especially, of course, in the natural and applied 8) s__________ and in all other sciences as well. The increase of information requires new methods and new approaches to students' training and instruction.

At present a new system of education is introduced in this country – a 9) d__________ education system. This computer system of learning helps working professionals to continue their education while remaining at their jobs. This system enables people to get 10) k__________ and a good foundation in the sciences basic to his or her field of study. Distance learning has developed over years from satellite video courses to modern videoconferencing through personal computers.