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My father had no trouble transferring his education into getting his PhD. My mother's skills carried her to a doctorate in nursing My uncle's medical skills c
by BoorishBears 5y ago
My father had no trouble transferring his education into getting his PhD.
My mother's skills carried her to a doctorate in nursing
My uncle's medical skills carried over well enough for him to be an orthopedic surgeon
My aunt's carried well enough to run her own medical clinic in Norway
Do you think they're learning to count sticks or something to get their degrees in other countries? Why wouldn't thinks as internal as learned skills transfer?
Credentials might not map 1:1 but they're also backed by something... everything you learned to earn them
- ausudhz 5y agoIt's not transferable 1:1, some college / university are not even recognized abroad. I had a friend of mine from Thailand that couldn't get recognized her master degree in marketing in an European country. So she enrolled again to go through the same stuff she learned just to get the valid degree spendable in the county
- BoorishBears 5y agoMy comment is saying they're not transferable 1:1 right there... Even between first world countries they're not transferable 1:1, even within single countries they're not transferable 1:1 But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. There's this narrative that high educated people form 3rd world countries all have to end up in menial jobs because somehow a doctor/lawyer/engineer/tradesperson from a 3rd world country is not knowledgeable enough to do anything else by 1st world standards, and it's more of a meme than anything.
- ausudhz 5y ago> But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. I wouldn't consider an head start to do again your degree once you've done it already in your home country
- BoorishBears 5y agoYou wouldn't consider knowing the entire curriculum well enough to have already earned a degree a head start? Do you know what a head start is?
- ausudhz 5y agoHead start in the uni maybe, not head start in life. And also the program would be in a language that you never learned as first language and you don't even master it so yes, is not an head start at all to me.
- BoorishBears 5y agoGood thing a masters is part of university then... The point is that other countries produce people just as capable at equivalent jobs, it literally said credentials don't map 1:1 but their actual backing, the knowledge, is real. You don't know what a head start is, that's ok, but my point was not that complicated.
- the-dude 5y agoWhich country did they emigrate from?
- BoorishBears 5y agoGhana