tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post2133894438931025835..comments2024-02-12T13:31:38.266+01:00Comments on Politics, Economy, Society: Free market can engender pathologiesstudent SGHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-25561313433527384392009-10-20T12:27:26.092+02:002009-10-20T12:27:26.092+02:00I have no idea how the Polish universities will lo...I have no idea how the Polish universities will look in 200 years, but one thing is easy to take note of - Polish private universities are mediocre for the same reason why the ones in the States are excellent - they're profit-oriented.<br /><br />Try to answer the question: what makes a good school: good lecturers / teachers or good students? The best students in Poland go to public universities, where the education is unpaid. As long as the best education opportunities are for free the picture is unlikely to change. In the United States the correlation between quality of teaching and fees is highly positive, in Poland it goes exactly the other way round...<br /><br />It's a matter of:<br />- payments (and this of course entails the issue of unfair redistribution - it is said, but it not fully true that children of well-off parents study for free, but this is the topic for two different discussions - here I have a stimulus for next posts),<br />- image of both types of schools <br />- role of schools - in Poland public schools conduct research, private usually churn out graduates<br />- setting up a market mechanism which would ensure effective competition<br />- change in mentality of academic workers - either Mr important professor shape up or the free market forces will do away with him.<br /><br />PS. are the studies in the UK paid? I suppose they are, how the scholarship system there?student SGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695813850715269190.post-46848395857630373402009-10-20T11:33:31.536+02:002009-10-20T11:33:31.536+02:00Other than a 200 year deficit in free market democ...Other than a 200 year deficit in free market democracy, why is it that in the US, the best universities are private (Harvard, Yale, Stanford), the mediocre ones are public(any university with the word 'State' in it)? <br /><br />Maybe after two centuries, the will of the market will ensure that Poland's educational system will have turned itself around?Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.com