The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

Man, I bet it's hard to pay that stipend back, though, right?

It's a stipend, you don't pay it back. I guess I should have said "grant" instead.

Stipend is a perfectly fine word for it though.

[Ideologue]

Man, I bet it's hard to pay that stipend back, though, right?

It's a stipend, you don't pay it back. I guess I should have said "grant" instead.

Whoosh.

[Jacob]

What percentage of high school graduates go on to college in Denmark?

I googled around a bit and found this: http://www.cli-ica.ca/en/about/about-cli/indicators/know-pse.aspx

I'm not sure if it answers you question, but it compares the percentage of 20-24 year olds in various stages of tertiary education. Looking at the totals (in tertiary education or having completed it) you get 57.7% for Denmark and 48.7% for the US (and 63.7% for Poland vs 34.6% for Austria to include the extremes).

Of course this includes vocational schools and all sorts of colleges and certificate programs and what have you, so I'm not sure it gets at what you're after.

[Jacob]

Whoosh.

... I wasn't completely sure, so I went with an earnest response.

Point for you, though

[crazy canuck]

Finnally, someone championing another education system then the bullshit Anglo-Saxon one.

I dont know about the bullshit education system in Quebec, but here in BC some programs are beginning to pay the cost of training in fields where there is a need.  For example in medicine the cost of some highly demanded specialties are being substantially subsidized if the doctor promises to work in a particular geographic area for a specified period of time.

[merithyn]

Finnally, someone championing another education system then the bullshit Anglo-Saxon one.

I dont know about the bullshit education system in Quebec, but here in BC some programs are beginning to pay the cost of training in fields where there is a need.  For example in medicine the cost of some highly demanded specialties are being substantially subsidized if the doctor promises to work in a particular geographic area for a specified period of time.

That stuffs been going on for decades in the US. Teachers willing to work in Urban Hell can pretty much get a free ride. Same with doctors willing to work in rural areas, and large animal vets willing to stick to a specific region.

The downside is, of course, that the reason those are subsidized is that no one wants to do that.

[The Brain]

I'm a large animal vet.

[crazy canuck]

The downside is, of course, that the reason those are subsidized is that no one wants to do that.

Yeah, exactly.  No need for the government to pay to encourage people to do things they would have done in any event.

[crazy canuck]

I'm a large animal vet.

Your veteran status with animals large and small is well documented.

[Grey Fox]

Finnally, someone championing another education system then the bullshit Anglo-Saxon one.

I dont know about the bullshit education system in Quebec, but here in BC some programs are beginning to pay the cost of training in fields where there is a need.  For example in medicine the cost of some highly demanded specialties are being substantially subsidized if the doctor promises to work in a particular geographic area for a specified period of time.

You do with what you have.

[Zanza]

34.6% for Austria to include the extremes).

Of course this includes vocational schools

I doubt that. If it would include vocational schools, percentages in the "not in education, with tertiary education" for countries like Austria, Switzerland and Germany would be way higher as it would consider the dual education system, which includes vocational schools.

[CountDeMoney]

So I found a scented candle set from the holidays I had forgotten my mother gave me; a cute, little and rather denominational set with Gold, Myrrh and Frankincense candles.

So I light up the frankincense one.  My place now smells like: Mass.  Yikes.

HERES SOME GOLD MYRRH AND FRANK SENT THIS

[derspiess]

I have quite the collection of Christmas candles we've amassed from my mom and my brother's mother in law.  None of them smell like church, though.

[Ed Anger]

Yankee Candle in the malls blow out my sinuses.

[CountDeMoney]

I have quite the collection of Christmas candles we've amassed from my mom and my brother's mother in law.  None of them smell like church, though.

No, I don't suppose candles named "Holiday Cookies" and "Christmas Pine Tree" smell like Free Massage Night at the Vatican.