Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> The Real Problem with Outsourcing
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> | We may have been worrying about the wrong issues: America doesn't
> | need a flood of new engineers, it needs to keep research at home
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http://yahoo.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/nov2006/sb20061107_874214.htm
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Yers kin sand yer backie chewen son to 'arvard but yers cannae mek him
stoody.
Goodness. Never realised how alike outback american and geordie are before,
can merge the two into one sentance and not choke on your tongue.
Anyway, the shortages are genuine, partly because engineering is not as kewl
these days as it was, also because a Sigh-cology degree is still a degree
(get to wear a cape and have a party) but lots easier to get (who on earth
is going to fail a sigh-cology degree, if you can't bullshit please do not
do this corse) and it's quicker than an engineering or English language
degree too. Though you can take advanced bullshit if you can't quite face
looking for a job for a couple more years.
Then, those that do go through engineering have spent more years at uni
doing a much harder subject so have a bigger loan to pay off, those weekend
beer nights are essential under This much preasure, and anyway after all
that hard work they want a darn good wage. Whereas Indians are happy with a
bowl of rice and a couple of glass beads for their hair, as it were.
Personally, I hate the idea of students having to have loans at all. No kid
(and argue as much as you like, you are still kids) should leave school,
college or uni already in dept, it is all to the country's benefit so the
country should be paying for it, including their beer nights.
But loans wont go away, so instead how about rewards. Each year you pass you
get a reduction on what is owed. i.e a portion is paid off the previous
years loan. The better the pass the more is paid off. With grades for
course types. Engineers getting all the way through getting up to say 90%
knocked off the loan, sigh-cology students get all the way through and get
say 2% knocked off. So the amount knocked off is directly proportional to
the amount of effort required to complete the course.
Some day I might go to uni to do a english language corse. But at the moment
I just can't see how I'd benefit from it.
PS: I would like to appologise to any sigh-cologists reading this. But I
find that I can't.
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