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If you want information on the Dutch system, just tell me, and I'll compose something!

Everyone

Hmm, maybe this will become a *very* long entry... or even a sort of *unofficial* university project

I'll have to find out if that's possible...

I'll compile a list of the Dutch system!

and it's all gonna happen in my journal!

Your journal is getting pretty big man

i like a big journal. i enjoy writing stuff that causes conversation, enjoy taking part in conversation, and enjoy hosting the conversation of others.

while we're on the subject i may as well ask you what you'd like my next Target: 10,000 Posts to be. so far, i've had:

Target: 10,000 Posts Of Nonsense - F76412?thread=263011&latest=1
Target: 10,000 Posts Of Truth - F76412?thread=276566&latest=
Target: 10,000 Posts Of Geek Talk - F76412?thread=279181&latest=1
Target: 10,000 Posts About The Future - F76412?thread=292236&latest=1

so, what should be next?

also, talking about journal, i just remembered an idea i had for a journal entry which i'm just gonna right now!

spook

10,000 posts of erm

Talk about

Erm


School?

*prepares for *

not really.

Erm.

10,000 posts in slang...? no one will have a clue

done at F76412?thread=313009&latest=1

(Y) Nice one

glad you like it!

you may also like to place a bet at F76412?thread=313008. you don't want to wait to long, as some of the betting options disappear soon!

spook

Spooky Doom!

...

The middle school system in England is Primary of Year 1-5 (age 5 to 10), Middle/Intermeadiate Year 6-8 (age 10 to 13) Upper (also called Grammer in places, which comes from the old system with the 11-plus exams, which is old and confusing) Years 9-11 (13 to 16). This is a really stupid system because you change schools 1 year before the end of each key stage (except KS1), which means that SATs (completely differernt thing to the US ones, just the same name) are pretty much meaningless.

You should also find someone to tell you about the swiss school system (it may be the same as the german, i'm not sure), that really is a stupid system. You don't start school till 7 and you don't leave universtity till 24, IIRC. And because they take so long to do everything, they don't think a BA/BSc from the UK counts as anything, they only count MA/MSc as degrees, regardless of the fact that in the UK we just learn faster, not learn less.

Tango

I'll deliver mine on monday!

Whoever is doing this article might consider presenting some of the data as a TABLE comparing countries school systems against actual age group to show where the different breaks occur side by side. The naming of years between systems was not consistent and would be somewhat confusing whereas the age of the child at each stage should indicate similar educational level. I wonder if the UK has had nearly as many systems as the rest of the world put together!

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> ... or even a sort of *unofficial* university project ...

You've got two options, if you do decide to write up the entries:

(a) Write, and have all the entries subedited, in three weeks as an official university project. If you managed to write the entries in the next two weeks, I might well be able to help out there.

(b) If you don't make this deadline, and wanted to write multiple entries, I've heard that it should be possible to send them all through Peer Review, then, once they had each been picked, to send them all to the same sub, and to link them together. They would then all appear on the front page on the same day.

RhoMuNuQ

you can't have an official University project Rho as they stopped accepting new ones about a month ago.

you simply write up all the entries and overload peer review with them!

spook

I'm a sub, so I'll ask them - sure we could get them done together...

I think I'd like to do lots of seperate ones and then one comparative?

Anyone wanting to contribute would be most welcome - I'll put something on Ask hootoo and see if we can get anywhere else!

Thanks guys
Lou

> you can't have an official University project Rho as they stopped accepting new ones about a month ago.

You're right!

I wonder if an exception could be made if we promised to have the entries ready on time?


> I'm a sub, so I'll ask them - sure we could get them done together...

We definitely could, if the project was allowed to go through!

RhoMuNuQ

well, i know they have enough projects for at least 3 weeks i think, since mine's going up in 2, adn will last a week. i'll contribute to this entry for sure, since it is well, being discussed and is evolving in my journal, so it would be wrong for me not to!