Байланысты: Аракин В.Д. Практический курс английского языка. 2 курс
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Students in Tents Three small tents — two blue and one khaki — are pitched among trees on a hill above Sussex University campus. This weekend they are 'home' to three students who cannot find a bed in the neighbouring town of Brighton.
They are an apt symbol of an accommodation crisis that is affecting thousands of students throughout the country. Tonight 80 other Sussex students will bed down on mattresses on the floor of the university senate chamber. It will be the sixth — and probably final — night of a'protest occupation!
In every major city there are students on camp beds in nooks and crannies and others 'crashing' on the floors of friends' flats.
The National Union of Students describes it as the worst ever student accommodation crisis! The indications are that it is a foretaste of a massive problem.
Unless something radical is done, the concept of a student having the right to go away to university may soon be dead. (See: Ttofi C., Creed T. S. English in Mind. Lnd., 1982)