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sorry should have said you can read more decent co...

2007-03-27T20:56:00.000+01:00

sorry should have said you can read more decent common sense and join in the "democratic intellect" at http://smallnation.org/drupal

Actually, its a terrible system and has contribute...

2007-03-27T20:55:00.000+01:00

Actually, its a terrible system and has contributed to a huge national indebtedness. As for 3 year degrees - depends on what you think a degree is for and whether people should actually understand what they are learning or just regurgitate it.

I'm afraid that more and more divisions are opening up in society and the concept of a two-tier higher education system is not too far away. In the US for example the bulk of students from low income families attend community colleges which work hard to provide degrees at lower cost, but the students are also so saddled with debt even in these cases that they have to work multiple jobs (often only available at minimum wage levels) to keep up. Then their degree studies suffer.

Meanwhile, in contrast, those from more wealthy backgrounds enjoy the kind of spoiled student lifestyle they always have as their parents pay for everything. They even, in the case of "honours schools" are taught in smaller classes and by more qualified academics than the rest.

Seriously, if we want to address HE properly then we need to be wary of these types of system. But I think we should also question what a degree is for and hopefully the answer will be a helluva lot more than just a training programme for a job. In an active democracy, particuarly in a "new" country, the civic dimensions of education and the personally transformative and empowering experience that it can provide are going to be a lot more important than anything else. So by all means reform HE and its funding, but do it to maximise every student's potential and not to aid the "secession of the successful" as Robert Reich has tellingly labelled the widening economic and social separation in contemporary capitalist societies.