Bar chart — Reasons for choosing a university in the UK, 1997 and 2007
📄 Bài mẫu band 8–9
| Introduction | Paraphrase: các lý do sinh viên Anh nêu khi chọn trường đại học năm 1997 và 2007, tính theo phần trăm người được khảo sát. |
| Overview | Overall: khoá học phù hợp là lý do hàng đầu ở cả hai năm; lý do thực dụng (việc làm, gần nhà) quan trọng hơn hẳn, còn danh tiếng trường mất sức hút. Không số liệu. |
| Body 1 | Suitable courses 38% → 41% (đứng đầu); Job prospects 24% → 37% (tăng 13 điểm, hạng tư lên hạng hai); Close to home 18% → 29%; Quality of teaching 27% → 34% (vẫn hạng ba). |
| Body 2 | University reputation 31% → 22% (hạng hai xuống hạng năm, lý do duy nhất giảm rõ); Social life 15% và 14%, thấp nhất, năm 2007 chỉ bằng khoảng một phần ba Suitable courses. |
The bar chart sets out the reasons that students in the UK gave for choosing their university in 1997 and 2007, expressed as a percentage of those surveyed.
Overall, finding a suitable course was the most frequently cited reason in both years. Practical considerations, namely employment prospects and living close to home, gained considerably in importance, whereas the reputation of the institution lost much of its appeal.
Suitable courses were mentioned by 38% of respondents in 1997 and 41% a decade later, keeping this factor at the top of the list. The most striking growth, however, was in job prospects, which jumped by 13 percentage points from 24% to 37% and moved from fourth to second place. Proximity to home rose almost as much, from 18% to 29%, while quality of teaching went up from 27% to 34% and remained the third most common reason.
By contrast, university reputation was the only factor to decline markedly. Chosen by 31% of students in 1997, it attracted just 22% in 2007, falling from second to fifth position. Social life mattered least in both surveys and was virtually unchanged, at 15% and 14% respectively, so that by 2007 it was cited by only about a third as many students as suitable courses.
| the most frequently cited reason | lý do được nêu nhiều nhất |
| gained considerably in importance | trở nên quan trọng hơn đáng kể |
| at the top of the list | ở vị trí đầu bảng |
| jumped by 13 percentage points | tăng vọt 13 điểm phần trăm |
| Proximity to home | việc ở gần nhà |
| decline markedly | giảm rõ rệt |
| virtually unchanged | gần như không đổi |