Posted on 11/10/2010 1:39:44 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Firstly, it is not a case that everybody else is “skating by without serious revisions in whatever it is they are getting”. What really makes this a kick in the teeth for the students is that they have been coddled and protected from economic reality for years. Decades even. They will still be way better off than US students in terms of tuition fees and other costs if and when this goes thru. What is causing the ill feeling is the scale of the increase, even though the overall cost is still heavily subsidised.
That’s a technology that’s only recently become available. And even then, you need interaction with others to properly learn. Anyway, it has been done in the UK for a very long time - check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
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