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cadchick
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 Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: University in Mexico |
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| What is mexico's education system like? I'm thinking of doing some work towards a bacherlor's degree. The fact that I never went further with my schooling has been bothering me a lot over the last few years. I had a brainwave, maybe I could encorporate university with teaching and get something productive done while I take time off of life. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| This has become a pretty competitive field over the past 5 to 8 years. You might have been able to actualize your plan in the mid-90s, but I don't think you will find employers willing to pay you a living wage and/or give you time off to study. |
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SarahEsperanza
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| I knew a girl while I was in Mexico who decided to do some medical school down there... their medical schools are much more intensive than in the US. She was pretty upset to find that her credits, etc. were unlikely to transfer and that she would have to complete her entire degree there or it would be a waste of time... I'm not sure how that computes into other areas, but I do think the education system is pretty different. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| In areas, such as medicine, where there is a lot at stake--not only money, but lives of patients (and malpractice litigation), not many countries will accept credits or degrees from foreign universities. |
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richtx1
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Nonsense. Foreign doctors practice in every country, and there are reciprocal agreements in nearly every nation on the planet. The U.S. is a bit stricter, requiring a foreign educated doctor to sit an examination before opening a practice, but that has more to do with restricting competition than questions of malpractice.
Canada is recruiting Mexican educated Doctors and Nurses, as well as Mexican engineers and accountants. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Nonsense, my butt.
Just try to practice mediciine is the US with nothing but a foreign degree--or here in mexico either, and see how far you get. |
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samizinha
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| A cab driver in Toronto is likely to be more educated than their passenger- foreign credentials, especially medical degrees, often mean nothing without getting Canadian certification and then work experience. Engineers may find work, but doctors could never just get off a plane and get hired. |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: University in Mexico |
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| What is mexico's education system like? I'm thinking of doing some work towards a bacherlor's degree. The fact that I never went further with my schooling has been bothering me a lot over the last few years. I had a brainwave, maybe I could encorporate university with teaching and get something productive done while I take time off of life. |
If you plan to make a living, or at least make ends meet financially, while teaching EFL in most locations in Mexico, I don't think you would have much time off to seriously study, especially if you aren't established in a particular location.
At the university where I teach, I think it's possible to take certain courses without being enrolled as a full-time student (via the foreign student exchange program,) although I'm not sure how one would do that without being part of an exchange group from a foreign university. Competition to get into the university is very stiff. Students who are accepted into whatever college they apply to are assigned to a group. They take all of their courses together as a group throughout their 4 or 5 years of university study. In other words, they don't pick and choose their courses each semester or take some of the same courses as students majoring in other areas as is common in U.S. universities. There are no general education courses; all courses pertain to their major area of study. If a student gets a few semesters into a major in engineering, for example, and then decides it's not for him, that he'd rather major in business administration, he has to go back to Square #1: Apply to the College of Accounting & Business Administration, take all of the tests, do interviews, etc., and then if accepted, start out there as a new student.
I think there are some universities in Mexico that run on a credit system similar to most U.S. universities, but the state university where I teach isn't one of them. |
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