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Somehow practically every country besides the US manages to give people a general education in secondary school, and reserves universities for deep study of one
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Somehow practically every country besides the US manages to give people a general education in secondary school, and reserves universities for deep study of one subject. Consequently, their bachelors degrees usually take less time.
Do you think university graduates in France, for example, are less “well-rounded” than those in the US?
- lazyasciiart 4y agoWith their mandatory PE through college? How could they be?!
- mattkrause 4y agoA little bit? It's hard to totally dissociate this from second-language issues, but I've noticed that international science grad students sometimes struggle to organize their writing, often in ways that go beyond grammar/vocab. I didn't realize this at the time, but writing essays on (e.g.,) feminism in The Canterbury Tales are really just exercises in putting together a cogent argument. Those skills transfer over to project proposals and design docs too. In a similar vein, European PhDs are also laser-focused on one topic so that they can be finished in 3-4 years. I think there's a pretty widespread sense that many need to spend a little longer as a postdoc to "round" out vs. Americans with slower PhDs.