Scott Berkun

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• Sean Crawford - November 17, 2008 at 7:15 pm #

• The “simple policy” for HiB visas has bit of ethnocentrism: the “four year university degree” part. The campus in the province next to me, in Saskatoon, has some three year degrees, Oxford and Cambridge in Britain have three years, and my own campus used to be three years. In a talk by our vice president of academics, she explained that a fourth year was added not to the top but to the bottom, as a high school make up year.

  Of course some degrees, such as law and engineering, are not enough by themselves, but the solution is to require real world post graduate training, not to lengthen the on-campus degree.

  It seems to me that a man from Mars, knowing everything about our society except for our schooling, would expect campus life to be three years, not four.

  
  

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• Scott (admin) - November 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm #

• A year seems a lousy measure of an education, given how wide the variance is in how rigorous a program is, or in even how many courses are taught in two semesters.

  But I confess ignorance on the whole mess – I’m ignorant of many of the details and much of my knowledge comes from people who have either struggled with, or have been screwed by (in their estimation), the current system.