We are also seeing in the US a plethora of degree-mills -- fake universities
whose goal is to sell 'degrees' so that the buyers can enhance their
resumes. They sometimes do so by giving academic 'credits' to applicants
for their 'life experiences.'
On another front, what do you think about the
distance-education/computer-based academic programs?
Lawry
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> Subject: The Rotting Universities
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>
> I see from today's Times that our country is not the only one with rotting
> universities. In Paris, The Sorbonne, founded in the 13th century and once
> France's most renowned university with the highest standards of
> scholarship, has now given a doctorate to a 63 woman who wrote a thesis on
> astrology (repeat: astro*l*ogy, not astronomy).
>
> In England, only about one-fifth of our universities (known as the "Top
> Ten") are worthy of the name. The rest vary between sub-standard and the
> pathetic; some will accept anybody able to write their names on an
> examination paper even if they can't write or do arithmetic as well as the
> average 12-year old Victorian pauper schoolchild in a charity school.
>
> I guess the proportion of worthwhile universities in America is about the
> same. On the basis of the above news item, I would guess that
> France has no
> universities at all with any respectable intellectual standards, though
> they still have their �coles, thank goodness. On this list I dare not make
> a guess as to the state of Canadian universities -- not that I know
> anything about them. But I have my suspicions.
>
> Keith Hudson
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