Indeed!
And here's another reason: Many foreign govts don't give funds to study in your onw country. Ok, the quality of school maybe one of the reasons. But i think there's an economic reason as well. When i get a scholarship, the money is spend in the donor country, means that somehow it gets its money back..
What do you think?
Probably. Plus it looks so good on the outside when they do that, nobody realises they're really recruiting productive labour resources from less fortunate countries. I never thought of it that way-that's really interesting. the selfish buggers! If they really wanted to help your country, they'd let you stay there.
I go to a private religeous college, and since I'm from America, I have to pay my *** off, while there are Eest Africans here who fail all thier classes for free. The only reason that they're here for free is because they're African. If they were from a developed country they would never have gotten a scholarship and their parents would be pissed at them for failing. Thats why I think that ethnic/political shcolarships are bull****.
well damn! I didn't know that they edited *ss and bullsh*t!
D'oh, I didn't even think of looking for scholarships to do the whole sourse of studies abroad... I had just never heard of that, I'm only used to scolarships for a period, a semester or two.
I so much hate the way university is organised here, every ignorant idiot could do as well as I do (as they do infact), cos it's not very hard at all, I study hard mostly for passion, but there are people who study half than I do and do as good as me. Maybe I'm some kind of fascist but I wish there was a better selection (in most universities there's no exam to enter, anyone who possess a diploma can just register... (well it's obvious, more people, more fees, more money to the state, more money for our politicians to steal :D). I think this, and most of all the very superficial way in which the whole thing is structured, can lead to 'produce' people that just don't have the competence they should have once they graduate.
Yea, same thing with the university I went to. My faculty (social and political sciences) is the crowdest faculty. There are bachelor degree programs (10 majors), diploma programs (7 majors) and extension programs (7 majors). This faculty is indeed a money making machine that uses education as its covers :mad:
Quite a few university's will let students in on a sliding scale, too. Like if they're willing to pay higher fees, they can get in with worse marks. That also sickens me.
Here we just get in and pay, previous marks dont matter.
In Russia education is free but there are exams to enter Uni... But those who dont pass the exams can go anyway if they pay :D Or so I was told.
Oh come on, if you couldn't get into good uni's with bad marks how would Bush have been able to get his Master's? Give the guy a break!Quote:
Originally posted by fayefaye
Quite a few university's will let students in on a sliding scale, too. Like if they're willing to pay higher fees, they can get in with worse marks. That also sickens me.
Why??? He got gentlemen's C's.
And how/why did he get in here.
If you're Scottish, you can go to uni anywhere, and the govt pays for it. I wish i was Scottish. But every time I try to pull off the accent, it sounds pirate.
Well, here we have "government paid" unis and private unis, which you pay for (d'oh). There are entrance exams to almost every uni, the exceptionons being science ... subjects, as most students go to humanities. So if you'd like to study physics here, on a gov. paid uni, you probably would be accepted with no problems, the thing is you'd have to be good enought to stay there, a lot of students quit of their own will or are told to thank-you-was-nice-get-lost. Getting into a private school's here's known for "if you have money, we can teach your kid" policy. Or if your folks have an old friend who's friend knows a guy in the school who owns him/her a favor... this has to be everywhere I guess. Can't say for myself though, was in gov. paid schools only. The only things you pay for in a gov. paid uni are place at dorms and textbooks.
Weird, here the only Unis that have exams to enter are some scientific ones, like Medicine...(thanks God...a bad Languages uni makes a bad teacher or bad translator at worst... I wouldnt want to be cured by someone that entered Uni just because he ddint know what to do for those 6 years...).
Here too, we have State schools and Uni, where you pay (but not much at all at school, just a tax), and private ones, usually owned by religious but not only, where you pay a lot more and they're considered to be for rich people whose kids are too stupid to go to a public school :D (a lot of people fail 1 year at a public school and move to a private one where they'll pass more easily).
And our nice government is giving input and money to private ones (which dont need money at all), while the public ones are in a disastrous state... teachers are badly paid and dont work well, most school buildings literally fall apart...
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Oh come on, if you couldn't get into good uni's with bad marks how would Bush have been able to get his Master's? Give the guy a break!
I was a little bit surprised when a friend told me that Bush studied at Harvad..hmm :rolleyes: .But I heard that Clinton was a smart one, I mean He only got like one B and the rest were As.
In my place, some universities held entrance exams just for formality, cause actually they accept all those people who registered.. One of the benefits to held entrance exam is that the Univ/college/institute can collect fees from the exam regristration...Damn bloodsuckers :mad:
Are you refering to Universities? If u were, then same thing in here but not with elementary till highschools. In my place most of the religious private schools are considered as the best schools, and that's why my mom sent me to Catholic School. She said Catholic school gives the best education.Quote:
Originally posted by Koa
... and private ones, usually owned by religious but not only, where you pay a lot more and they're considered to be for rich people whose kids are too stupid to go to a public school (a lot of people fail 1 year at a public school and move to a private one where they'll pass more easily).
I don't know for sure whether it's true or not, but one thing that I know is "Catholic School Girls RULE"..
:D :D
Yup Clinton was an A student at Caimbridge University. Do you know how effing hard it is to be an A student in British Uni's? Its pretty effing hard!
And I gotta agree with Sub. Catholic School Girls do RULE! (yes, I know he's quoting a Chili Peppers song, but damnit its the TRUTH!)