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Did your mum and dad go to university, or did they leave school and go straight to the Job Centre The educational experience of parents is still important when it comes to how today’s students choose an area of study and what to do after graduation, according to The Future-track research in the UK.
The research was done by the Higher Education Careers Service Unit. It plans to follow university applicants for six years from 2006 through their early careers.
The first year’s findings come from a study of 130,000 university applicants. They show significant differences in prospective students’ approach to higher education, depending on whether their parents got degrees (second-generation applicants) or didn’t (first-generation applicants).
First-generation applicants were more likely to say that their career and employment prospects were uppermost in their minds in deciding to go to university. Abo
A. parents’ experiences are more important for their children’s education
B. parents’ careers are vitally important for their children’s degrees
C. students’ approach to higher education correlates with their parents’ educational experience
D. students’ career and employment prospects are decided by their parents
In a family where the roles of men and
women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a
greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The
pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in
turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to
accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more
fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation, rather than by
the "battle of the sexes". Man’s role is sometimes regarded as less important. It’s time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and specialists on the family are bec A. the role of the father may become a less important one B. the children will grow up believing that life is a battle of the sexes C. boys growing up in such families will not do any housework D. the growing boy and girl will learn to accept that equality of sexes in family life 我来回答: 提交
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