Re: someone noticed 90 percent indians posting on asktom.oracle.com

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:3f38a675$1$10355$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au... <interesting argument guys

> > But how about some research on quantum computing? Or on intelligently
> > applying common tools to uncommon problems? Yadda yadda...
>
> Unis are not mainstream education for the masses. Not now and even less
> the way education is going.

Maybe not in your neck of the woods. In the UK we have this daft target to get 50% of the school leaving population through University. Assuming this half assed target doesn't die a quick death (and all political parties seem to support it cos education is good right?) then University education will become exactly mainstream education for the masses, a crying shame in my view.

> > When I think back to the 70s in the UK, and remember how every man and
his
> > dig was out on strike every other week, and in considerable measure
because
> > the unions were fighting lay-offs in such high tech industries as steel
and
> > coal, I can only laugh at this sort of stuff.
>
>
> I've got my own theories on that. If you're interested we can take it
> offline, this is not the place. I sincerely doubt that hasn't seriously
> harmed the UK economy in the long run.

Oh yes the UK economy was seriously harmed both by the absurd conditions of the 1970s and by the corrective reaction to them in the 1980s. But your correct this probably isn't the place.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK