Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Government policy changes which may affect the budget next year include the increase in social security taxes and the raised mandatory age of retirement, Skocpol said. Harvard may have to spend more to pay older professors at the top of the salary scale, if they take advantage of the higher mandatory retirement...
...many of the qualities of the recent popes; he is concerned with human and social problems, but at the same time he is intellectually involved in all kinds of modern issues not strictly limited to church ideas," he added...
...there. The education they receive is correspondingly more concentrated and structured than that of their U.S. counterparts. All secondary education--whether state-run, or private at the misnamed "public schools," is rooted in competition: despite the introduction of comprehensive state schools which take all abilities (and thus avoid social divisions), children are still "tracked" internally. The "public schools"--the institutions that produced the rulers of the Empire--still thrive and take a disproportionate number of places at universities--expecially Oxbridge...
Grounding in your chosen subject is thus much more comprehensive--which is why many Americans doing a second degree in England do an undergraduate B.A. course. Graduate work is correspondingly one stage further advanced. Ph.D. candidates, especially in humanities or social sciences; who have chosen their research topic will be left to get on with it. They may or may not see their supervisor regularly--but there will be few or no "programmes," graduate classes, seminars or the like. At the age of 21 or 22 you will be accorded the respect of being an independent scholar, and left...
...also "truly a founding father of the Social Studies program, helping to give it an intellectual base when it was started in 1959," Richard M. Hunt, senior lecturer in Social Studies, said yesterday...