This situation does not apply to Latvia, where a disastrous lack of the latest generation of academ

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Arnis Altena voluminous article negotiations, beam balance changes in the seasons: school of excellence, good foreign universities and to return Latvian Riga Time magazine's July issue and then addressed answer / comment - Edgar Eihmanis Excellence valid drivers at Satori.lv me once again stirred for years awaited confidence decline in the value of higher education beam balance or devaluation. Essentially, this is a comment discussion that the local environment arguments started recently - look forward to a sequel.
Talk about the power of arts education, because that is my personal experience (two higher education degrees, one of which is produced abroad, and current doctoral studies Latvian), which led in recent years to draw a couple of conclusions. Criticism from a safe distance, I'm not in the participatory process, not comfortable, so loud and beg to ask questions.
If we look at the remote past fifty years, higher education was a well-to-do available, elitist way. The studies resulted in the specific field work in the same field and is often one of the highest academic degree to which it was possible to aspire beam balance and achieve.
Mass culture growing turnover, higher education became more available and accessible to the point that we have now reached, that is, if something beam balance highly coveted wants to can buy. Higher education in the Western world has become a billion-worth market, with all the inherent attributes of a real business - competitive prices, in proportion to the increase in the supply demand and so on. Do not misunderstand, I'm not about elitism and illiteracy, but pessimism raises a number of factors, the result is that not only undergraduate, but even a master's and a doctorate in public consciousness value dropped significantly.
Market conditions have resulted in a constant state tuition escalation. beam balance Over the past five years, tuition fees in some Latvian universities have increased several times - by the way, the fact that many potential students make Latvian skeptical look on studying here because of the relatively little amount many times greater qualitative education is learned abroad. "Better quality" and the controversial concept, perhaps we should say "modernize" teaching methods and attitudes of respect. However, tuition fees, Latvia is cake, and of the students can learn free of charge; British Isles, the figure is about 10 000 per academic year in the U.S. - up to three times higher. The paradox is that the people who just got a degree, come to the realization that it is not enough (inflation), resort to future studies, the results of which are no longer one, but two or even three academic credits, which may very well repay life. And why not enough? The Company "pressure", the desire to do so, as "doing all" - mass culture fashion without realizing that the same but also "they are all".
At least Latvian situation, because studying abroad, my experience has been much different. Certainly - students themselves inertia. Studied often "checkmark of", so that it now "accepted". A large part after graduating beam balance from high school beam balance in general do not even know that they are interested in, and instead beam balance of having to take a year free and dedicated to their research interests, "jumps" in the first train. And the same confused and ķepurojas. After following a bachelor's master may be comfortable walking along the tracks, as happened overthrow. In addition, well-managed to combine full-time work with studies where walking to lectures is not compulsory, if it can be copied by any other study records.
Latvian beam balance learning process is not a process that gives pleasure, but a passive form of participation in the system, which aims to document. And then another one. Latvian is not only one institution with education and obtained a degree viewed as the status of the security. However, this is not a status associated with outstanding beam balance academic beam balance knowledge acquisition.
In many private conversations with friends and acquaintances who are studying at prestigious foreign universities, heard that without their doctoral candidacy for a particular artistic or academic environment is not taken seriously. On the other hand, the opportunity to be at an academic post in the Western world is extremely small direct the Postgraduate (Masters and PhD) programs and their graduates overwhelmed due. A vicious circle from which the output will not be found so soon.
This situation does not apply to Latvia, where a disastrous lack of the latest generation of academically highly qualified teachers. And one of the reasons that have studied abroad than here is the fact that at the sight of Vin expansion