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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
You're right. They're really universities over here as well, as they support their own degree programs, but the term 'college' is often used as an interchangable colloquialism.
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But as I have understood it, it's fairly common in there to quit after the bachelor's degree and you can actually do something with that. Whereas here it doesn't happen, since our universities expect by default that everyone will get a master's degree.
Which leads to us complaining that the universities take too many applicants in (even in history where the amount of passed qualification exams has in all my years been less than 10 % of the applicants), and since they will all become masters, the value of the degree suffers. A professor of pedagogy once called this on a lecture "schoolification" (closest translation I could come up with), and development towards a society where you need higher and higher degrees to get lower and lower ranked employment.
It's no wonder many of our academics are at least seriously considering moving abroad and quite many also do it. It's not fair for the society that pays our education, but neither is it fair for us to study 5 to 7 years and have the society say we are not good enough.
Heck, I didn't mean to write that much simply to say that we could use an improvement in our tertiary education system that supposedly is "one of the best in the world".
