At 03:18 PM 7/21/01, you wrote:
>"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
Not that you have much of a guarantee if you go to a state-funded
school: after all, you might end up in one of my classes . . .
;-)
(Probably not unless you sign up on the first day of preregistration,
though. They fill up fast.)
--Ronn! :)
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