Picking on foreign students1

opt rather than coerce, use force or give money as a means of persuasion.
Main Idea
P5 : Foreign students promote the UK’s economic development and
create wealth. P6 : Britain set up a deregulation of foreign student’s quantity.
Right for Wrong and
ensuring no pretending students(P4L1)
impractical because of not considering Britain’s obligations and economic needs(P2L4)
Geour opinion
about this issue?
Education is the most effective way
of wielding the “soft power” . Foreign students contribute not just to the country’s coffers but also to its intellectual wealth. Openness to the world create a great success.
禁令
Paragraph 2
reducing the number of the immigrants,
especially the number of foreign students
Bona fide undertaken in good faith
诚意
Conduit
a passage through which water or electric wires can pass 导管，沟渠，途径
Main idea
Para 3
The foreign students are no
guarantee to enter LMU because the rules are always changing.
Main idea
Para 4 The government can keep a watch on foreign students, however, the social stability and prosperity should be put in the first place for every policies
用外交政策领域的流行词来说，教育是施加软实力最有效的方法；换
句话说，教育可以使你不依赖武器便让人们接受你的想法。若将大学 用作英国边检的一个机关的话，这些收益将全部打水漂。
Soft power is a concept to describe the ability to attract and co-
exempt : having special permission
not to do a duty, not to pay for something （责任，付款等）可免 除的，豁免的 coffers : 金库 isolationism : (政治或经济上的）孤 立主义，不干涉政策
Education is the most effective way of wielding the “soft power” that is voguish in foreign-policy circles—bringing people round to your point of view without training your guns on them, in other words. All that is jeopardized by using universities as an arm of the UK Border Agency.
向留学生开刀！
By：马 嫡 陈 思 董 媛
Content
A case of xenophobic populism The many benefits of teaching
foreigners
cabinet(P1, L2) :a group of
New Words
the most important government ministers, responsible for government administration and policy内阁
‘a nasty piece of populism’ (P2L1)
‘exempt students ’(P6L1) ‘Better still, adopt a more liberal approach, and
remember how Britain first became great: through openness to the world, not through xenophobia and isolationism ’ (P6L3) ’
foster : to encourage a feeling or skill
to develop 培养，鼓励，助长 voguish : fashionable 时髦的，一度 流行的 jeopardise ：to risk losing or destroying something valuable or important (=jeopardize)使频临危险 境地；危及；冒…的危险
curtail(P2,L9): to reduce or limit
something限制
median(P2,L10) adj.(only before noun):
in or passing through the middle中间的
fell foul(P2,L13):offend prohibition触犯
后者则反映了令人不安的民粹主义。
Populism refers to political activities or ideas
that claim to promote the interests and opinions of ordinary people （以平民利益和 主张为诉求的）平民主义，民粹主义
伦敦都市大学
Paragraph 1
the cabinet reshuffle the revocation of London Metropolitan University’s license to teach foreign
students
The second is a nasty piece of populism.
Why is Britain the most hostile to immigrants?
many immigrants are entitled to entry
Some foreign workers who pretend to be students use colleges and universities as conduits and want
to work in London
the British government has invested more than four times of the estimate in the London Olympics economic recession
Author’s ideas critical
reshuffle(P1,L3):interchange the posts or responsibilities
of a group of people改组
revocation（P1,L3):revoking or
being revoked撤销
London Metropolitan
University(LMU)