First of all I have to say that my work in search of an internship is still bringing in lucrative prospects. Such interesting prospects that I am starting to track small amounts of remorse in my mind. Nevertheless, I am content to see that the hours I put in are still providing me food for thought.
Secondly I managed to get cracking on the internship I am at now and am astonished to see the tools of my studies at work. All those doubts that once were present seem to become insignificant. So far the internship has taken me to a lecture from the CEO of Lego and on a field trip to Berlin for a Cradle to Cradle venue. More interesting venues are coming up and I have managed to be working remotely so far. This is how I want to conduct my voyage through an interesting and thought-provoking life.
On Tuesday I am meeting some peers of mine also engaged in the same company. I will be helping them on a problem of communication. They chose to conduct research in a country where they lack the necessary language skills. So I will see if I can be of any help to the task. This might bring me further trips into the Germanic field.
Another interesting aspect is that I have been able to justify these trips by funding them my self. Since the internship is unpaid they are automatically green-lighted and I can spend my time working, studying and seeing friends as I want. Great times at the moment and I hope it will prevail for sometime to come.
Thirdly I am having administrative issues with my thesis. These issues were supposed to have been cleared before Christmas. However, since the end of February seems to be near I am feeling slightly annoyed. So the way I work is that I look into solutions for my problems. Like all good business students I seem to recognise a problem and start looking for the money.
In this case I recognise the problem being administrative burdens on the road to the degree. I also recognise that some politicians in my home country have argued about students being held back by conventional education systems. Furthermore they add that valuable time is being squandered away for the sake of administrative burdens.
Now my Masters cost me just short of €17,000 and I remember a one years bachelor in the UK being £3,000 (which by now has quadrupled by my understanding). So all this potential money is enough for the mind of the business student to start brainstorming. This is what I came up with.
Education systems are outdated. The theoretical degrees and programs should put online and remote teachers should be governing the learning groups. As a student you should all start on one team, after some weeks you will automatically be divided into Slow-, middle and fast-learning track. Teachers would be required to freelance and work out the modules online. Students would then browse through modules and pick the ones they would like to study, based on curriculum, based references, teacher profile, etc. Modules, teachers and students would then be governed by market forces.
This leaves back two problems. First being the final Diploma. How do you accredit a diploma with modules from, let say, 13 countries on 4 different continents? Secondly How do you get this specific idea accepted by all the European (not to say the world’s) Educational Ministries?
Anyway educational concepts seems to be big at the moment. Especially in the US, several prominent bloggers have started to attack the static US education system. I am interested to hear: Is the system in you country also outdated and in what way?
Christian Petersen – “Applying Business Skills”
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First of all I have to say that my work in search of an internship is still bringing in lucrative prospects. Such interesting prospects that I am starting to track small amounts of remorse in my mind. Nevertheless, I am content to see that the hours I put in are still providing me food for thought.
Secondly I managed to get cracking on the internship I am at now and am astonished to see the tools of my studies at work. All those doubts that once were present seem to become insignificant. So far the internship has taken me to a lecture from the CEO of Lego and on a field trip to Berlin for a Cradle to Cradle venue. More interesting venues are coming up and I have managed to be working remotely so far. This is how I want to conduct my voyage through an interesting and thought-provoking life.
On Tuesday I am meeting some peers of mine also engaged in the same company. I will be helping them on a problem of communication. They chose to conduct research in a country where they lack the necessary language skills. So I will see if I can be of any help to the task. This might bring me further trips into the Germanic field.
Another interesting aspect is that I have been able to justify these trips by funding them my self. Since the internship is unpaid they are automatically green-lighted and I can spend my time working, studying and seeing friends as I want. Great times at the moment and I hope it will prevail for sometime to come.
Thirdly I am having administrative issues with my thesis. These issues were supposed to have been cleared before Christmas. However, since the end of February seems to be near I am feeling slightly annoyed. So the way I work is that I look into solutions for my problems. Like all good business students I seem to recognise a problem and start looking for the money.
In this case I recognise the problem being administrative burdens on the road to the degree. I also recognise that some politicians in my home country have argued about students being held back by conventional education systems. Furthermore they add that valuable time is being squandered away for the sake of administrative burdens.
Now my Masters cost me just short of €17,000 and I remember a one years bachelor in the UK being £3,000 (which by now has quadrupled by my understanding). So all this potential money is enough for the mind of the business student to start brainstorming. This is what I came up with.
Education systems are outdated. The theoretical degrees and programs should put online and remote teachers should be governing the learning groups. As a student you should all start on one team, after some weeks you will automatically be divided into Slow-, middle and fast-learning track. Teachers would be required to freelance and work out the modules online. Students would then browse through modules and pick the ones they would like to study, based on curriculum, based references, teacher profile, etc. Modules, teachers and students would then be governed by market forces.
This leaves back two problems. First being the final Diploma. How do you accredit a diploma with modules from, let say, 13 countries on 4 different continents? Secondly How do you get this specific idea accepted by all the European (not to say the world’s) Educational Ministries?
Anyway educational concepts seems to be big at the moment. Especially in the US, several prominent bloggers have started to attack the static US education system. I am interested to hear: Is the system in you country also outdated and in what way?