Re: [kent-grads] Chemistry

[Brian Meadows <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:05:56 +0000 (GMT), Huge wrote:

>It is interesting to
>note that the country which sends the highest proportion of it's
>population to University is the one which you doubtless regard as the
>root of all evil, one in which universities are free to charge economic
>fees for their courses; the USA. 

Not totally correct. If you go to your home state university,
then at least in a large number of the states (I think it's all,
but knowing the USA, there's likely to be one or two oddball
exceptions) you will pay a greatly reduced fee. My wife has
forgotten what the Delaware fees were, but I have vague memories
of something like an 80% reduction in fees for Delaware students
at the University of Delaware. 

In any case, while accepting that I'm working on a
non-representative sample, I'd say the comparison isn't a valid
one. University here seems to start at a far lower level than in
the UK - that's based on when Pat was typing the first year
Physics papers for the U.Del. I asked for a look to see how
things compared, and was amazed. Granted that the JMB was
regarded as one of the tougher examining bodies, I still think I
did most of the U.Del. first year physics course during the first
year of my physics 'A' level. I'd certainly have been well
chuffed to have got the U.Del. paper in my part I exams. 

Perhaps Tony Addison, or anyone else currently working in the USA
university system, would like to comment?

Brian. 



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