Imagine expecting a recruit to pay to attend a military boot camp. Where students are expected to pay a tuition they actually are second class citizens compared to new recruits.
I don't like economic theories and policies which portray the student as a "consumer". Harry Philip Winestone wrote: > Good question, but at the tender age of 17, it would never in a million > years have occurred to me to ask it. All there was, was a kind of > underlying panic... > > At the time, these were government-funded institutions (don't know the > details), so it could have been government that called the shots. As each > student was funded (tuition, books and living grants) those who granted the > money were quite selective in the first place - university entrance > requirements - so when I come to think of it, the culling started much > earlier. At the time, the number of graduates in the UK was about 10% of > the number in Canada (perhaps North America) on a per capita population basis. > > It all seems so long ago... > > P. > > > At 11:11 PM 9/4/2006 -0500, you wrote: >> For a university's book to balance, I wonder how many students >> need to quit or flunk after the first or second year. >> >> >> Harry >> >> >> Philip Winestone wrote: >> >>> Hi Richard. >>> >>> "Essence" indeed... The essence is most likely the intuitive aspect (or >>> part of the intuitive aspect) I was babbling about. >>> >>> Interesting about "culling". Back in Scotland, where I graduated, the >>> culling was done by the university. 60% in the first year and a further >>> 60% (of the remainder) in the second year. And as you say, of the >>> remaining (exhausted) bunch, most were trying to get out of Engineering >>> itself as soon as possible. Into management where the pay and prestige >>> were far greater than those of the grunts manning the slide-rules (remember >>> them?). >>> >>> P.
