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You're generalising from one data point. Even within the UK, Scotland has a 4 year degree and England a 3 year. Generally in Scotland you can switch to your mi
by glymor 18y ago
You're generalising from one data point.
Even within the UK, Scotland has a 4 year degree and England a 3 year. Generally in Scotland you can switch to your minor at the end of the first year without losing anything.
The only other part of Europe that I know about Germany is vastly more lenient with people staying students seemingly forever. One guy I talked to claimed that they couldn't afford to finish as the loss in student discounts would be too abrupt. Kind of like people on unemployment who would have to take a pay cut to start working.
And of course just because people can switch doesn't mean they do. Whether it's in someway normal to switch seems to play a larger role (generalizing from two data points...)
- jerf 18y ago"You're generalising from one data point." No, I'm not. I'm sharing a general observation with wide validity associatively triggered by one person's post. It's a conversational thing. "Generally in Scotland you can switch to your minor at the end of the first year without losing anything." Do you mean this as some sort of evidence against my point? (Honest question, I'm not sure.) It's evidence for it. "And of course just because people can switch doesn't mean they do. Whether it's in someway normal to switch seems to play a larger role (generalizing from two data points...)" Culture. Even if there are no technical barriers, if the culture forbids it, or makes the thought unthinkable somehow, it causes friction.
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