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167 Rob: Well, that is what Professor Steve Smith thinks. He is President of UK Universities which represent all British universities. He says the US puts two-and-a-half times the amount of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) into its universities than we do in the UK. Extract 1: The US puts two-and-a-half times the amount of GDP into its universities than we do and therefore, surprisingly, they get two-and-a-half times the number of universities in the top two hundred. I think this is all about the investment that countries put in the future - all about the investment they put in their universities. Rob: Professor Steve Smith says it’s all about the investment the country puts into it's universities that makes them successful. Alice: OK. So he says the US invests more money in universities than the UK so they have more of them on this list. Can I change my answer now?! Rob: No Alice. You may still be right. Fourteen British institutions are on the list including Oxford and Cambridge. It’s interesting that the institutions which dominate the top of the list are English speaking ones as BBC reporter Jonny Hogg explains…. 1) What does the London Times Higher Education List do? 2) What factors is the ranking based on? 3) Why is the investment into universities important? 4) Do English speaking universities dominate the top of the list? Part II Listen to the second part of the recording and answer the questions: 1) Which university is number one in this list? 2) What does Anglophone mean? 3) What is the first non-Anglophone university in the list? 4) What is important when you choose a university? Discussion: 1) Why aren’t any Russian universities in the top hundred? 2) Why did you choose this academy? 22. Speaking. Choose one of the following topics and talk on it in groups of three people. a) Faculties of ISMA b) General information about ISMA c) Staff and students of ISMA