"Don" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > It is different elsewhere. > In Australia, all universities are public, except one private university > which is named after Australia's most notorious corporate criminal. Really > bizarre - it's kind of like getting an Aviation degree from Bin Laden > Flying School.
Heh, crazy :) > I'm not sure that I would have gone to university if I'd lived in the US, > and I'm certain my wife could not have -- it seems like you need rich > parents. Our tertiary education was virtually free. In the US you can go afford college easily if you're either really rich *or* if you're in poverty (or if you're a non-caucasian woman). If you're in poverty you get everything paid for via all the scholarships and grants that are out there (which is great). You also get pretty much a free ride on grants and sholarships if you're a woman or a non-caucasian and doubly-so if you pursue math or CS (not so great if you beleive in the "equality" that most US citizens *claim* to value, even though most don't *truly* value it as they wouldn't know true equality if it, ahem...well, you probably know where I'm going with that). But if you're white or male (especially a white male) and you're middle-class (especially lower-middle class), then you're pretty much screwed. I made the mistake of going and it left me US$100,000 in debt. Stupidest thing I ever did by far. > > Australian universities get their money by having astronomical fees for > overseas (Asian) students. There's a lot of pressure on academic staff to > get them to graduate, no matter how poorly they perform. Yea, see, doesn't matter where you go, schooling is an absolute joke.
