Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
by jpttsn on Friday August 02, 2013 @06:29PM
(#6150064)
I gather you're unhappy about the falling demand for a degree in teaching, but the whole argument you're describing is politicised and unsupported. The article suggests there's low demand for a degree in teaching; extending that to "academic merits does not matter" is a crazy stretch.
This link shows statistics for people accepted into higher education for this fall semester: http://statistik.vhs.se
Both in the design of the system and in its actual results, it's clear that academic merit matters more than any other factor.
Re:Sweden Runs Out of Garbage With Waste-to-Energy
by fetbaffe on Thursday August 08, 2013 @07:13AM
(#6178218)
That link just shows academic merits relative to other students, not absolute academic merits.
Politicized is the one that accepts the reality of politics, I don't because I look at result not intent.
And that we granted every small education institution with the status of university.
So to sum up: the goal of "free" education is to make higher education available for more people. This will lead to lowering of standards of already existing programs because more will attend (normal distribution of skill) and in the universities self interest a majority will pass because universities is paid per graduated student.
And with a gradual lowering of standards this opens up for unqualified students to attend, especially in combination with government programs.
Ergo academic merits does not matter.
In Swedish Almost anyone can be a teacher http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/nastan-vem-som-helst-kan-bl...
This is now norm on many programs at the Swedish universities.