I quite like living in my country (Australia); it's got a lot going for it. The government is trying to wreck this, of course, but we've had just enough good leadership in the past to make this a difficult task.
Much more relevant, though, is that I've always said two things:
1) I'd always choose not to live in the U.S.
2) No matter how rotten it is I'd rather be my home country fixing it than running for the nearest exit.
I think this is true of most Australian universities. Maybe that's what's causing all this trouble with the rising cost of tertiary education here.
One of my lecturers went to the US last year and was surprised to see people taking notes and asking questions in a lecture. He came back with crazy ideas of NOT recording lectures. We quickly convinced him that students taking their own notes was only likely to increase the failure rate because we're computer scientists and have limited abilities with pens and paper. His advice (as always) was that we should buy a mac, but withdrew his threat to stop recording lectures.
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I quite like living in my country (Australia); it's got a lot going for it. The government is trying to wreck this, of course, but we've had just enough good leadership in the past to make this a difficult task.
Much more relevant, though, is that I've always said two things:
1) I'd always choose not to live in the U.S.
2) No matter how rotten it is I'd rather be my home country fixing it than running for the nearest exit.
I don't know where those rules leave you guys.
I think this is true of most Australian universities. Maybe that's what's causing all this trouble with the rising cost of tertiary education here. One of my lecturers went to the US last year and was surprised to see people taking notes and asking questions in a lecture. He came back with crazy ideas of NOT recording lectures. We quickly convinced him that students taking their own notes was only likely to increase the failure rate because we're computer scientists and have limited abilities with pens and paper. His advice (as always) was that we should buy a mac, but withdrew his threat to stop recording lectures.