Education Definition and 519 Threads

Inspired by the talk about tuition fees in the "european degree terminology"-thread, perhaps the financial side of academic education could use an own thread? So, despite our daily proportion of intellectual food, I suppose phycists must eat: what does it cost to get an academic education in...

Hi, Im going to be moving to the us soon so could someone please tell me the us education system right from school e.g about the sats what gpa is etc. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Srijan

hello guys, In north america (at least for science and engineering) we normally have bachelor then masters and then phd (for some they will continue and do postdoc). I would like to know more about the french equivalent, i know that there's the "ingenieur" progam which could be equivalent to...

Hi, i have a question that may sound stupid for most Americans here but i was wondering what levels do you guys have in the US after high school. I mean, here in Europe, when you go to college you have three bachelor years and then one or two (sometimes even more) master years and then the...

If someone has already done this I apologize. I looked (briefly) but I didn't see one. And being that curiosity probably brought all of us here, i figured you would understand as I satiate mine for the moment.

Somewhere in a discussion about Belgium, I understood following intriguing statement: - lower educated people were inclined to vote to the Democrats - highest educated people were also inclined to vote to the Democrats - the "middle field" was inclined to vote to the Republicans Any...

Hello, I am very interested in taking a course in graduate level physics via a distance education program. I am based in India. I was hoping you could point me towards reputed "open universities" you are aware of which provide graduate level courses in physics. I have a degree in...

I'm not really debunking anything, but I didn't know where else to put this. One of the chaps I hang out with sometimes used to lecture computer science at a Melbourne university. He's done some physics of course - you must in such degrees. So we're all talking crap one day, and this fellow...

Education.. right or privilege?? Yesterday was one hell of a day. I'm from South Africa.. absolutely wikid country and I study in the University of Witwatersrand (best varsity in the country). Well, yesetrday we had the biggest ri0ts since the anti-apartheid ones in '94. It was crazy, the...

Hello, I'm a freshman from New Jersey studying at The University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. I am studying electrical engineering now, but I am considering studying physics and math. I enjoy electrical engineering classes, but I am more interested in a research field and physics has...

I was listening to Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Davenport has paid for and run his center for decades. Tonight he was complaining about the quality of UFO reports these days. Young reporters often cannot intelligently describe things like the angle above the horizon at...

Hi all, A group of fellow students and myself are nearing the end of the educational year and we would like to thank the phyiscs teacher thas has been our guide for the past three years. The idea is to buy her a book as well as a pen with an engraved proverb that will express our gratitude...

Are you sure kat? "WASHINGTON - The number of Americans who don't have health insurance rose sharply in 2002, mainly because of unemployment increases and two straight years of cuts in employer-provided health coverage. The number of uninsured Americans jumped by 2.4 million to 43.6...

Hi, I'm a grade 12 high school student who is planning on a post-secondary education in a Math or Science field (after another year of high school). I'm not exactly great at the stuff, I just don't want a job where I have to deal with too many people all day. :P I'm a decent student, my grades...

I am a freshman in college right now. I am going to pursue a physics major. Possibly major in astronomy and physics. I was curious if it would be possible to get a masters in aerospace engineering if I had a gotten a major in physics. Any help in this topic would be greatly appriciated. Thanks...

Does education kill true dreams? For me high school was a taunt. Between the kids and the teachers and hormones carries you away from what you really wanted to know. Do school formats kill true thought? How can you have a true discussion when there's someone there telling you you have to change...

Two things. I dislike and have heard bad things about schools forcing kids to rent out of date laptops even if they already have one. Also from my experience online college courses are terrible. You feel so distant from the class and the teacher. Most online courses use portals like...

Hello, I am exactly half-way through a degree in engineering physics. At my school, most students are either in the engineering physics program or the aerospace engineering program. Up to the half-way point (where I am now), both programs are almost identical. I don't really want to...

I'm a grade 12 student and I have always thought that our education system was flawed(I'm from Canada, although I believe the US have the same problem). I think what is wrong with our system is the rewarding of students with average IQ's with excellent work ethics. I believe that students with...