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1、Unit 1 School lifeClip 1 Healthy eatingWoman 1: The schools are doing it because theyve got to promote healthy eating and I think its the right message. But I think really they should target the parents beforehand, because I think its quite sad for the children to have things in there and then to ta
2、ke them away.Woman 2: I think its a good idea. I think children should eat healthy while theyre at school. Treats should be at weekends or after school.Man 1: So what is allowed in childrens lunch bags? Well, here I have an array of food. Good and bad.Man 2: Sandwiches, pasta, fruit and nuts are fin
3、e. Sweets, crisps, fizzy1 drinks and chocolate though are set to be taken away.Clip 2 Grants for school buildingsVoice-over: The building work continues but for how much longer? Theyre ready to start a second phase of refurbishment here, but the college may have to send the builders home.Woman 1: We
4、ve just come up onto the roof of the old building and as you can see there, that is the new building weve been working on for two years and were just about to move into the refurbishment of this great two-lifted building.Voice-over: The principal of South Thames College told me what would happen of
5、she doesnt get the money for the new building project.Woman 1: I will have already committed six and a half to eight million pounds that will then be the Colleges debt. And this building would no longer work because the services would be cut off and this will have to be muffled.Voice-over: From hair
6、 dressing to forensic scienceover 20,000 students and adult learners come here. Some classes are in the old listed building. But the basement floods and the heating breaks down and thats why they wanted to give it a refurb.Clip 3 The increasing tuition feeVoice-over: University fees paid by these st
7、udents are capped at around 3.000 pounds a year. But the government is due to review the situation and the body representing the bosses of Englands universities has a suggestion, to increase fees to 5,000 or even 7,000 pounds a year.Woman 1: We have a world-class reputation that needs to be maintain
8、ed. Students, I think quite rightly, expect a very high-quality higher education. And that has to be paid for.Woman 2: Todays second-year students will leave university with debts of more than 17,000 pounds on average. Under one of the schemes being discussed today, that amount will increase to more
9、 than 26,000 pounds, a sum that could take quite a few years to pay off. The question is, would this increase actually put young people off from applying to university in the first place.Man 1: Potentially yes. Yes, I would have to assess my personal situation at that time. But I think it will put a
10、 lot of people off as its a huge amount of money.Woman 3: Im doing a history degree so I have about eight hours of contact a week. So as for my money being wasted, whereas medical students have lots of labs and lots of money on them, so I think it would kind of cause me to think twice about going to
11、 university and which university I go to and where.Man 2: Well I think it is breathtakingly arrogant of university vice chancellors to be talking about doubling the level of tuition fees and the level of graduate debt in the middle of a recession. I think they need to get out of their ivory tower to
12、 look at what is going on with the economy now. Students are in increasing hardship already and leaving tens of thousand of people graduating with even bigger amounts of debts is reckless and irresponsible.Voice-over: Introducing tuition fees in the first place was controversial and difficult so the
13、 government is unlikely to rush to increase them now. Annabel Roberts. ITV News.Clip 4 Graduates facing difficult timeVoice-over: Students setting out on lifes journey are feeling the economic strain before theyve even secured their first job. For as the economy contracts, graduates vacancies have f
14、allen for the first time in three years.Woman 1: Most of the other people that I know in my degree, in my course, theyre still struggling to find jobs.Voice-over: Diphian Serran is a final-year student hoping for a first-class degree and praying for a good job. So far, despite numerous interviews an
15、d an impressive CV, shes had bad luck.Woman 1: Very bad luck. Unfortunately. Ive gone through the interview stage of many, so to the final stage. But once I reach there, I often get, either get rejected or its, you know, “well let you know”.Voice-over: The downturn in manufacturing and the meltdown
16、in the financial services mean that nearly half of the employers expect to hire fewer graduates this year. That means the competition on campus has ever been tougher.Woman 2: This is the generation of university students who were born and bred in the economic boom. But they are graduating in the economic bust. Recruitments down, salaries are frozen. This is crunch time in every sense.Man 1: These times are a lot to
