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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Universities: The Grecian Formula


There's violence in Athens as beneficiaries of a sclerotic state-controlled university system hurl bombs to head off the introduction of private universities.

Private universities? Private universities? Who the hell does that?


...Students and academics claim that bowing to market pressures and ending the state monopoly on tertiary education will lower the standard of education for all and further divert resources from chronically underfunded state universities.

Opponents — who include left-wing opposition parties and labor unions — also fear that additional numbers of university students will reduce the value of state degrees and create a two-tier system.



You can't lower the Greek standard of tertiary education. It's already the lowest in Europe.

You wouldn't want more people educated. Additional numbers of students, especially at competitive private schools, would almost certainly reduce the value of state degrees.

Anything would. The value of most of these degrees is nil.

A two-tier system? You mean like in the States, with public and private universities? What if some of the private were better than the public? Shit...
Posted at: 1/18/2007 10:19:00 AM