Being a resident of Québec, Canada, I find that the CEGEP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGEP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGEP ) system employed here is some

Being a resident of Québec, Canada, I find that the CEGEP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGEP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGEP ) system employed here is something that other provinces and perhaps even the United States should take a closer look at. The wiki page can describe the benefits of such a system in much more detail than I can, but I can offer one salient piece of information: the system works, and it works quite well.