There are real barriers to college in Europe.
Bill,
I'm sorry, but where are those barriers? I don't know how school system is organized in US, but here you go after primary school (age 12) to secundary school and you can choose between a technical school and a regular school. Both end at the age of 18. After secundary school, you can go for university or graduate. University is 4 or 5 years (civil engineering, law, economics, languages, medicine...), graduate (teacher, nursery, informatics,...) is 3 or 4 years.
About 20% of our young people finish with a university degree, about 30% with a graduate, the rest stops at 18, most with a technical degree.
I can't see how this possible can be 1/5 of American graduates. Unless 100% of Americans end with a university degree.<g>
If the stats are so much out of line, then there is possible something wrong with them. Comparing apples to grapes or so.
I don't know about that German system, never heard of it. You will have to ask somebody else.
Bert |
