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University
June 8, 2012 - 8:17am
Let the conversation continue.
Overall cost for attending university has become far too expensive. I think publicly funded universities should look very hard at delivering online degrees and work to solve problems inherent with marking and cheating etc. Internet bandwidth is cheaper today than a few years ago. Why pour resources into educating 25 people in a class room when they can educate tens of thousands at a time? Udacity's Sebastion Thrun said recently that people need access to cheap education over longer periods throughout their working lives. One single degree doesn't cut it for workers anymore. Workers of today and tomorrow will have to specialize and commit to continuous learning. I think the current situation whereby young people go into debt to the tune of a house mortgage for one university degree will become obsolete eventually. They have to turn knowledge spigots wide open to the public at some point.
Taking Emily Dickinson the Masses
Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador has slapped a junior hockey coach with a one-year suspension for allowing his players to study for exams instead of attending the opening ceremony for a recent tournament.
In addition to coach Brian Cranford's suspension, the Mount Pearl Junior Blades team was fined $2,000 by hockey's governing body in the province.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/06/10/nl-...