Money and education<\/p>\n
Money and the quality of education are today's hot issues,
\nwith some people saying that quality does not come free or cheap.<\/p>\n
Others say the quality of a product does not always depend on
\nthe amount of money one has to fork out for it.<\/p>\n
In fact, a number of leading state universities, especially
\nthe University of Indonesia (UI) and the Bandung Institute of
\nTechnology (ITB), have decided to provide a special channel for
\nthe admission of students who could afford to pay higher tuition
\nfees.<\/p>\n
This means that it does not matter whether or not a student
\nmeets the qualifications required by the state universities. So
\nlong as he or she has the money to pay the fees, he or she will
\nhave a place in the state universities.<\/p>\n
The university is a place for the development of human
\nresources, a place where quality people are developed.<\/p>\n
Thus, there is no excuse for any university to mortgage its
\nstandards for money.<\/p>\n
The pragmatic reason that the special channel is only for
\nfinancially able students, is by no means acceptable.<\/p>\n
As far as quality is concerned, there should be no distinction
\nbetween rich and poor students, because if leading state
\nuniversities follow the trend to mortgage their standards for
\nmoney, it would be the end of the noble objective of education
\nitself.<\/p>\n
In this light, the special channel can be called a misleading
\npath.<\/p>\n
Nobody wants institutes of higher learning, such as UI, ITB,
\nthe Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Gadjah Mada
\nUniversity in Yogyakarta, to compromise the high quality of
\neducation in the country. -- Media Indonesia, Jakarta<\/p>\n
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\nANPAk..r..
\nOtherop-mosquito
\nMosquito Time
\nJP\/6\/
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\nMosquito Time<\/p>\n
Humans -- especially metropolitan humans -- like to think of
\nthemselves as living at the top of the food chain. But this is
\nthe season when it becomes clear that we're really at the top of
\nthe menu. It's mosquito time again. And while the food available
\nto mosquitoes -- us -- hasn't expanded much in the past year,
\ntheir habitat certainly has, thanks to a June of record rainfall.
\nEvery outdoor receptacle, natural or unnatural, that could
\npossibly contain water now actually does. Anything that holds
\nwater for the few days needed to incubate mosquito eggs is doing
\nso. The Northeast is a giant mosquito nursery. All those billions
\nand billions of larvae, hanging head down in still water, are
\njust beginning to metamorphose into pupae and adults. We, in
\nturn, are just beginning to itch.<\/p>\n
The ancestral fears of yellow fever and malaria have faded
\naway, thanks to vigilant mosquito control. They've been replaced
\nby fears of West Nile virus, spread by mosquitoes that bite
\nbirds, and of Eastern equine encephalitis. These diseases remind
\nus that humans aren't the only creatures mosquitoes find
\ndelectable. Out in the country, most people fear ticks more than
\nthey fear mosquitoes and not only because of the threat of Lyme
\ndisease. A tick seems somehow like an extremely slow mosquito.
\nMost of us can't actually see a female mosquito distend herself
\nas she draws in our blood, but a tick makes it plainly visible.
\nWe can only be thankful that ticks don't fly. The reason they
\ndon't is obvious. That evolutionary niche is already full of
\nmosquitoes. How full, only the summer will tell.
\n-- The New York Times<\/p>",
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