Getting a D at C
April 28th, 2006
To succeed in this increasingly interdependent world, you need more than linguistic abilities. You need the intercultural knowledge, understanding and leadership skills that come from experiences among many cultures. This is what The Scholar Ship can offer you.
The Scholar Ship. (Thanks to sharona for passing on PostgradIreland’s information on this wonderful project). A floating ‘university’ where you get to see cool places and get a certificate from an Australian university - Macquarie in Sydney, which is in THES top 100, for the small sum of $19950 (four months). It will have “libraries and lecture halls where the casinos and ballrooms were”…
Despite my best attempts to believe otherwise, this appears to be fairly legit (if clearly profit-driven), and backed by various heavyhitters, including Peking and Berkeley, as well as Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines (ahem). The savvy press person who spoke to the Guardian earlier this year said that “as UK students get used to paying higher fees for their courses, the cost of the on-board semester would not seem as high”. Which is a fair point.
On the other hand, they do use the wonderful Intercultural Development Inventory, which even by the standards of academic hoohah (”a statistically reliable, cross-culturally valid measure of intercultural competence”) is pretty amusing.
It’s a strange world.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
This isn’t as crazy an idea as you might think…
Take into account that Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines offer all you can eat onboard their cruises.
So if you don’t graduate at least your parents will know you were well fed!
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Actually in North America, ‘meal plans’ are quite common, where you pay a set fee as part of your residential rent, and you get unlimited food or a set number of meals, either on the whole campus or within your dorms/college. There’s one place that I’m staying in this summer that during the academic year has 7am to 9pm catering service with hot food all day, plus of course specific breakfast/lunch/dinner, as well as non-alcoholic drinks, snacks, etc. You pay your fee at the start of the year and then have unlimited access to it. Oh, and it’s next door to the library and close to a computer lab, too. How anyone stays healthy I have no idea….