Re: someone noticed 90 percent indians posting on asktom.oracle.com

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:58:45 +0100
Message-ID: <3f3900aa$0$15041$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message

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> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3f38dfb2$0$15033$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
>
> > > Unis are not mainstream education for the masses. Not now and even
less
> > > the way education is going.
> >
> > Maybe not in your neck of the woods. In the UK we have this daft target
to
> > get 50% of the school leaving population through University. Assuming
this
> > half assed target doesn't die a quick death (and all political parties
seem
> > to support it cos education is good right?) then University education
will
> > become exactly mainstream education for the masses, a crying shame in my
> > view.
>
> Maybe. I'd rather have that, than this quaint notion our
> government has that anyone taking a uni course has to
> fork out 100 grand for it. Which means it is effectively
> out of reach for the vast majority of the population.

Who said it was free. IIRC the last figures I saw said that on *average* graduates were in debt to the tune of GBP15k or thereabouts. This figure is expected to rise.

> Mind you: no guarantees of quality, suitability, whatever:
> just cough up the moolah and they'll supply the diploma.
>
> I don't think so...
>
> Then again, if they hadn't spent the last 20 years selling
> courses to foreign students for that price (plus accomodation)
> and making a motza out of it, maybe we'd have someone sensible
> in charge of education. Unfortunately, we have a bean counter.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 12 2003 - 09:58:45 CDT