Looking more widely, the government believes that 50 per cent of the population should go to university? The reason usually given for making people individually responsible for the cost is that it is unfair to subsidise students from taxation.
At its technology lab in San Jose Cisco Systems is showing off internet phone applications that can convert voice messages into digital files that can be forwarded to an email inbox, as well as email that can be converted to audio that can be...
Telecoms regulator Ofcom will be asked to come up with a strategy to boost broadband take-up among disadvantaged sections of the population. Education is a key plank of the plan and the government says it will give all students the chance to access...
Apparently a lot of the drugs are bootlegged - i.e.of dubious origin - and are being consumed by around 50 per cent of the student population in some colleges. Hey, if it gets results, students are getting top grades, moving on to the Ivy League...
Brown also stressed the need to include the whole population in this change - and not widen the digital divide. But Gates believes the reasons people choose great universities or schools - access to professors' lectures, the ability to discuss...
And it would be nice to think that the visible trend of ageing academics and professionals in the West might just be reversed by a significant percentage of recruits from the indigenous population. For the students it gets worse even faster.