Level of education, was Re: R&D

[Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten]

"John D. Giorgis" schreef:

> At 02:38 PM 7/18/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
> >And you think surgeons' salaries haven't gone up here? It's not that nobody
> >here wants to become a surgeon -- our universities just don't have the
> >capacity to let every applicant into medical school.
>
> I forgot - another difference.   The United States has private
> universities.   When our universities run out of capacity, the market
> builds new ones.

And who guarantees that students aren't just taken for their cash and end up
with a lousy education? In other words who guarantees the level of education a
student gets at such a newly founded private institution? I find a private
university, without *any* form of government interference, a rather scary
thought. Especially in health sciences.

Sonja