I was a lecturer at a university in Melbourne (AU) for over 3 years. I quit after being told I could not fail students whose work was way below par, as well as finding them directly plagiarizing (copypasting) work from the Internet. This was a design school, and the students they would not let me fail were all overseas students. The problem is that if these students get below a certain score they are "sent home" and the massive amounts of money they pay the university is gone.
The thing that really horrifies me is that the universities are more tied to the money they get than what the degree they give stands for!
To me it all comes down to relational memory. That is, personally, I don't remember a lot of things exactly, but I do remember how to find them out. To me this is not a problem of not having such a good memory, but more of having so much information pushed at me every day, that I have to find a way to "compress" it in my mind, to remember the relations.
At the same time, I must admit, that I do think that I should do some memory practice sometimes, just more as 'brain exercise' than anything else.
PS: It's called "becoming a cyborg".
I'm really sick of comments like "With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce." As was commented earlier it's because of CCD sensitivity! Keep comments like that on the comments page, not as the article header PLEASE!
I'm sick of all these front page news items about 'America' getting number portability. I'm sorry but it's just wasted space. Australia has had the same thing for at least 2 years now and... well I don't think you guys really cared about that. OK, maybe one article but there's been front page stuff for ages now....
Ah... love you your description of Australian geeks! It's because we're Mahoys (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ma hoy)not geeks... big difference.
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I was a lecturer at a university in Melbourne (AU) for over 3 years. I quit after being told I could not fail students whose work was way below par, as well as finding them directly plagiarizing (copypasting) work from the Internet. This was a design school, and the students they would not let me fail were all overseas students. The problem is that if these students get below a certain score they are "sent home" and the massive amounts of money they pay the university is gone. The thing that really horrifies me is that the universities are more tied to the money they get than what the degree they give stands for!
To me it all comes down to relational memory. That is, personally, I don't remember a lot of things exactly, but I do remember how to find them out. To me this is not a problem of not having such a good memory, but more of having so much information pushed at me every day, that I have to find a way to "compress" it in my mind, to remember the relations. At the same time, I must admit, that I do think that I should do some memory practice sometimes, just more as 'brain exercise' than anything else. PS: It's called "becoming a cyborg".
I'm really sick of comments like "With digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it makes you wonder why it took so long to produce." As was commented earlier it's because of CCD sensitivity! Keep comments like that on the comments page, not as the article header PLEASE!
I'm sick of all these front page news items about 'America' getting number portability. I'm sorry but it's just wasted space. Australia has had the same thing for at least 2 years now and ... well I don't think you guys really cared about that. OK, maybe one article but there's been front page stuff for ages now ....
Ah ... love you your description of Australian geeks! It's because we're Mahoys (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ma hoy)not geeks ... big difference.