This thread surely grows. I have missed a lot of it as I have been driving for ten days throuh South Africa's twilight zone but as I have tried to get my head around the postings but firstly what
Keith Hart wrote: hit me in the face: > The USA is the only country in the world where higher education of >> a highly variable sort is universally available. How could you argue that a country with such prohibitive university fees an costs could in any way be "the only country in the world where higher education ... is universally available"? Universally available implies that access is equally open to all - having taught in a US university this seems to me not to be the case at all. I am now a post grad research student at an Australian university, the country where I got my law degree - virtually for nothing. To undertake the degree I am now at a US institution woudl have have cost me at least $40,000. My fees however are less than $100 US per year. Whatever attacks may be made on the Australian system it surely is closer a universally available system than the one Keith suggests. In response to the part of the discussion about the standard of US undergraduate teaching/assessment and students I was tempted to post one of the many nasty emails I have from my students saying that my courses where unfair as they were too hard ... but I have resisted. Martin # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
