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These are classes such as personal finance (beyond home economics that are taught in junior high school).
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I couldn't agree more. My highschool, incidently, had gotten rid of Home Ec by the time I got there. What I know about managing my finances is what I picked up from my parents. That's fine and all, but considering the issues this country has with personal debt (it seems), I think teaching high school kids how to budget and the basics of savings & investment would be a good idea.
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Poly!Originally posted by Jon Miller
you have been exposed to americans for a few years now (on apolyton if no where else)
you would think that you would have figured it out by now
Well I happen to talk to Americans outside of poly, and even sometimes about tertiary education, but that is in part a source of confusion, as some seem to differentiate between college and uni, some use it synonymously. And from our point of view, it is difficult to understand the purpose and structure of "college" at all.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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Yeah, but that's a master degree. We'll start bachelors next year.Originally posted by Azazel
The Law degree is 8 simesters? damn.
I get my B.A. after 6.
Until around 1980, there wasn't even a master's degree in law here, only a doctorate.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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college and university are the same here
the only difference is that a university will also give a PHD (a college won't)
please ask me if you are still confused
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So they are different and the same. Thanks for clearing that up, Jon.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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the degrees are the same
it is just that a college won't offer a PHD
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And in the US, even universities are referred to generically as "college". So there is "college football" which consists mostly of university football teams.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I am pretty sure that there are different degrees offered in europe besides PHDs, if there is than there is reason for colleges
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A master's degree in 4 years?Originally posted by HershOstropoler
Yeah, but that's a master degree. We'll start bachelors next year.
Until around 1980, there wasn't even a master's degree in law here, only a doctorate.
In Israel, it takes 3.5 years ( 7 simesters ) to get an LL.B , 6 simesters to get a B.A, 8 simesters to get a B.Sc. and 5 years to get a B.Arch.Comment
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So college offers law and med degrees? I thought law and med schools were usually part of universities, not colleges - unless you refer to unis as colleges, as Dan says.
Shouldn't be so hard to understand that this can be confusing.
"I am pretty sure that there are different degrees offered in europe besides PHDs, if there is than there is reason for colleges"
Well I can't make any sense of that either.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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It's clear by reading this thread that Americans go to school longer than people in many other countries.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Old system, the new master based on the bachelor will be 10 semesters (6+4). Also that's just minimum time; most actually need 10-15 semesters. I did mine in 7, but that was so unusual that the uni, can you beleive it, didn't have a form for that!Originally posted by Azazel
A master's degree in 4 years?
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10-15 simesters?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People get Ph.Ds over here for such a period of time.Comment
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DanS, and how did you come to this conclusion? I'd like to point out, that in many countries we go to school longer before college. For example here it is 12 years. And THEN it's college. The level is naturally about the same, so it's not like we need to learn how to read for 12 years
. We just don't call it a college at that point. So if we were straight comparing, I'd be closer to second or third year Uni/college student there. Also, our systems how long you're going to study are also different, because of different credit systems, but it's safe to say the final degrees are comparable and same.
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