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What is the societal cost of faffing about in CEGEP and how is it different than faffing about in college?
by dfc 13y ago
What is the societal cost of faffing about in CEGEP and how is it different than faffing about in college?
- acchow 13y agoThe way I understand it, CEGEP is not held on the same campuses as universities and the teachers are not professors (usually not PhD graduates either). Think of it as doing college 100-level courses in a high school setting with high school teachers. I believe we can agree that faffing about in high school has a lower cost than faffing about in college?
- dfc 13y agoYes high school is different than college. They are not equivalent and that is not the issue in the instant case. What is the societal cost of a 19 year old faffing about in CEGEP in Quebec and how is it different than the societal cost of a 19 year old faffing about in college in Ontario?
- herge 13y agoIt's way lower, because the teachers are payed less, the campuses are smaller and easier to manage, the curriculums are more standardized across the MEQ, so they are cheaper, etc. If we really wanted to reduce the societal cost of fafing about in school, we could eliminate all tax-payed school systems entirely, but no (developed) country in the world does that, even the United States. However, Quebec, as a society, is happy to pay the cost for the "inefficiencies" CÉGEPs if it increases the overall education levels of its population.
- keypusher 13y agoIt costs $200 a semester and not $10,000+