Slightly mis-leading title, but here's the facts; Despite what many of our american hating posters seem to preach about, how America is failing in education and how colleges in the US are no longer what they used to be, the number of foriegn students coming to america for an american college education (because it is still in fact the best education you can get in the world, reguardless of what our american haters love to preach) surged by 5%. Sort of amazing when you read some of the bile that comes forth from these forums about America and their higher education. You'd think, seeing how supposedly China is superior then the US, it would be the other way around, wouldn't it?
It is failing. Your average American receives a substandard education by western standards. 1% of your population receiving a great education isn't something to brag about.
Indeed! A minorty of American tertiary students gets a superb education. Knowledge doesn't trickle down.
I was looking at your signature: The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed. ~ Ghandi At least Americans know how to spell Gandhi.
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There is only one way القذافي the nearest English would sound Al Qwthafy but not accurate just near
No, you are empty, because you don't know the country specific distribution of these students, and this trend worldwide. Compared for example to Europe (both West and East), the gain/cost ratio of US colleges is very bad. Compared to Latin America though, the constant chaos of those colleges make US institutions worthwhile, just to get to finish a degree in less than 10 years.
I know-I was just pointing out that we Anglicise names for convenience. The only accurate form is in the original language-and I don't read Arabic!
In this region American colleges and Universities have opened branches here in the ME offering scholarships and exchanges and a lot of the students like to go to the USA to taste the 'sweets' they do not get at home before settling down
I know and that's why there are so many spellings of words which differ. We can change spellings of words in English so many times in one sentence because for us there is no rule. I sometimes use American and sometimes English spellings and sometimes make my own up
The thing about China's education is in the details. On those lists regarding great education & "rankings", China isn't taken as a whole. China is cut up into cities. Not a fair comparison. I'll bet if we hand pick cities in the US with the best education and smartest kids, the list would look far different. How many Chinese out in the boonies even know what the internet is?
Hey, did you know that in other languages some stuff is spelled differently? Examples: Parijs vs. Paris, Berlijn vs. Berlin, Londen vs. London, Poetin vs. Putin, etc. Ghandi is an acceptable spelling in Dutch.
American universities are still among the best in the world. It's precollegiate education that is suffering here. This is why so many foreign students come here for collegiate education -- because our colleges are good, and because they tend to score higher than a lot of our own students.
No, no, no. Some American universities are just *really* good. Take Flanders for example. We have 5 universities to serve a population of 6 million people: the University of Ghent, the University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp, the Free University of Brussels and the newly-created University of Hasselt. If you want to go to university here, these are the only places you can go. They *need* to accept you -- as a citizen you have the *right* to attend them. All of them stand in the top 200 of the world. I prefer a system like that. Like I said, knowledge doesn't trickle down.
Well, jan, that's basically what I meant. Maybe it was bad phrasing on my part, but I'm not saying that all of our colleges are world class. I'm just saying we have a lot of world class ones. We have a huge education market, so this allows for a large number of upper echelon universities among the world's best.
