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Apr 11th 2015, 2:19 pm

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JamesM

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Re: Sums it up nicely actually

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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel

What's he saying James? My Urdu is even worse than my French.

Something about me being the forum's answer to John D. Rockefeller and doing something painful to my buttocks with new found wealth.

Apr 11th 2015, 3:43 pm

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Re: Sums it up nicely actually

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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel

Attention; Serious On Topic Post:

Canadian institutions have no problem rejecting education from countries most people would consider equivalent- and even when there are specific international accords in lace to assist mobility and address the problems of variable education quality in unregulated countries.

I wouldn't say my education in California was equivalent to Canada for high school if Grade 12 science is any indication (taking it currently.) as it's harder and more in depth then any science class I took in high school.

I did get credit for English 12 though which I found odd since I received 60% both semesters which is not an acceptable percentage for college credit in California, but it is here?

Immigrants especially East Indian do well in my industry, they are usually the owners.

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Apr 14th 2015, 4:44 pm

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MikeUK

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Re: Sums it up nicely actually

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Originally Posted by Jsmth321

Let be fair about this....

The US still struggles with Evolution, Climate change, Metric system, etc
no wonder you find science harder

Apr 15th 2015, 7:38 am

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Re: Sums it up nicely actually

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Originally Posted by MikeUK

Let be fair about this....

The US still struggles with Evolution, Climate change, Metric system, etc
no wonder you find science harder

Evolution and Climate change was never an issue in California, both we taught without any controversy. They were teaching us climate change (called something different back then) back in 1st grade in 1985...lol

Metric was largely given up in the state when it became clear the feds were not going to switch over..

I have a co-worker who is a doctor, just learned that. Well respected doctor in his home country. Google is your friend in cases like this...lol

Now he works for 11/hr, and not sure if he is going to try and pursue medicine here, sounds like a very long, difficult path for him to do so.

Apr 16th 2015, 1:34 am

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Re: Sums it up nicely actually

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Soon-to-be-ex-academic though. :thumb up:

Your remarks about Honoris Causa reminded me of my former boss when I worked in Germany. Even before he won a Nobel Prize in 1995 he had numerous honorary doctorates. Now in Germany, they love long, complete, titles so he was "Professor Dr. Dr. h.c mult. Erstename Nachname.

And his wife, of course, was Frau Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult ...

I had a customer once from Bosch I think it was who had two German doctorates. He insisted (as in got very upset and verbally aggressive when we didn't) that we always addressed him as Herr Doctor Doctor. He was universally referred to, when out of earshot, as Herr Burning Burning by us Brits.