UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA

CURSO DE COMPRENSION DE LECTURA EN INGLES

ACTIVITY 6: Are grades at postgraduate level irrelevant?

Elemento de competencia 2

ESTUDIANTE:
Carolina Ordoñez Burbano

DOCENTE:
Wilbert Restrepo

Pasto-Nariño

2021
 I. Who are the following people in the reading:

Natasha Clark: Is a freelance journalist, currently studying an MA in newspaper

journalism at City University. She writes about current affairs, the media and politics.

Kaammini Chanrai: MA student Kaammini Chanrai is studying gender,

development and globalisation at London School of Economics. Chanrai, who
is searching for roles in human resources, says: "With most jobs I've been
looking at a master's is a bonus, regardless of what you grade you get. I think
that what matters more is where your master's is from and what subject it's in."

Jamie Pett: Works as an economist for a group of humanitarian experts in Zanzibar,

Tanzania.

Jonathan Higgs: Higgs works in information systems for EDF Trading.

Rob Fryer: Head of student recruitment at Deloitte.

II. Watch the videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7szJbRv9Hc),

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZW58bOBFE)

Then based on the information in the reading “Are grades at postgraduate level irrelevant”,
write a list of five logical inferences

“More students choose to extend their education and pursue graduate degrees”

“With most jobs, a master's degree is an advantage”

“Dissertation and skills are more important than an overall grade”

“Graduate qualifications don't matter as much as experience and placements in

the media industry”

“Candidates who have a master's degree tend to have more life skills”
III. Complete the sentences with the words or phrases in the box. There are three
extra.

Disseration: Is long essay on a particular subject, especially one written for a

university degree or diploma.

Module: Is each of a set of standardized parts or independent units that can be used
to construct a more complex structure.

Skill: Is the ability to do something well.

Qualification: Is a pass of an examination or an official completion of a course,

especially one conferring status as a recognized practitioner of a profession or
activity.

Reputation: Is he estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the

community or the public generally.

Experience: Is the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or

undergoing something.

Job: Is a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one's
occupation or for an agreed price.

Differentiate: Is to change; alter.

Job: Is to warrant or guarantee.

Employable: Is the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position