President Obama signed legislation to college access for millions of young Americans by the transformation of the Federal student loan program in what it expand as "one of the most important investment in higher education since the GI Bill."
A word of caution here. The student loan program could be easily a vehicle for the youth of slavery by the U.S. government has become.
The share price of large student loan originators, such as Sallie Mae, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase andBank of America would be undercut. Obama wants to move most of the student loan division in the direct lending program of U.S. Education.
What happens if a student drops out of school or lose his job before the student is paying off loans? Federal collateralized loans currently allow "a form of" Federal Loan Forgiveness.
To the forgiveness is there for some very strict requirements, such as voluntary work carried out, perform military service, teaching, orto practice in medicine, certain types of communities and / or other criteria by the forgiveness program, such as working in the fields of public safety, law enforcement, early childhood education, public health, public education, public library or school library services, emergency management is indicated and the list goes on and on.
The new program by the U.S. Education Department run makes it easier for young people to enroll in secondary schools. But it comes with heavy stringattached. For one thing, the U.S. Education Department is not a financial institution, nor is it a law enforcer. The law will become the IRS enforcers. The financial burden is placed on its own will and their financial institutions. The U.S. Education Department is not accountable for each of their decisions on the awarding of scholarships.
U.S. Education Department is committed to a totalitarian institution of its own policies and the people running the department now. It resembles theCommunist Ministry of Higher Education and that is the subject of this article.
Free Education - communist style
Some social background is necessary here. The communist system, by design, unless 100% fit employment for all to work. For the naive outsider this was very classy and sure enough, it will benefit many people who care do not have to provide for themselves and their families.
Since there were no private companies more if someone was unemployed, theonly option was to survive by stealing from the government-run institutions. It was so easy. At least that is what the government and rightly feared. Even then, would be theft of building materials and just about anything not available via retail, are smuggled from factories or other institutions and sold on the black market. The fuel for trucks, which was also part of the government, the petrol-colored red. The truck drivers would routinely sell gasoline to private motoristsparticularly for motorcyclists. The government had left the establishment of police checkpoints on all main streets of towns and cities, just to check for stolen gasoline, and to monitor move to the individual.
The education system was very strict. It was virtually impossible to pass the test without a good knowledge of subject.
High school was compulsory. Students were allowed to repeat a failing class only once. Students who have failed a schoolDiploma were assigned to a trade technical school. The school was run like a boot camp. No interference allowed and corporal punishment was routine. By the time we were in high school, no one dared to disturb, they knew better. However, some teachers would smack you if you do not do your homework, or it lacked the knowledge in the class to test. Sick leave was by on-site school doctor or nurse will be approved.
After graduating from high school, we had two options: 1 Qualify for admission and at aUniversity or second Get drafted into the army, which was compulsory (two years).
High education was just as Master (5 years). There was no equivalent of a university. The equivalent of four years of college was as a vocational school and took no loans to existing secondary school. To obtain a master's degree, you have to start from scratch, no matter how many years of vocational school you collected.
A problem with this education system that was verylimited number of openings available each year. It was not unusual for 30,000 candidates competing for 300 places at the medical school to see. The Polytechnic Engineering School were I applied there were 300 posts and 15,000 applicants. The recording process was very simple: five days of written and oral examinations. Admission Department does not consider the high school grades and their reputation. All High School's curriculum were identical throughout the country.
All technicalUniversities in the country had the entrance examination held in exactly the same day and at the same time. All issues and questions were secret, delivered by people from the Ministry of Education started minutes before the test. None of the test were professors inaugurated the test in advance. Each test consisted of a four-hour written, followed by an oral to a different group of subjects.
The 300 finalists (adopted) were the ones with the top GPA on the basismore than 30 species collected during the examination. None of the tests were multiple-choice answers. After the first year, 100 students in my class either resigned or had taken on all subjects and over again, even if it is only one class failed. Only 150 completed with a master's degree in electrical engineering / electronics degree after 5 years. The score was 10-10 in those days, with 6, the lowest the note. The 300 accepted from 8.66 to 9.88 points on average.
You may wonder why IFirst steps in this detail.
The point that I try will make here is that this huge competition mainly due to destruction of all private companies that was not necessary talent of this caliber was to stay in business. What's with all the other 15 000 minus 300? They were created in the army for two years. After these two years, they would try again and again either at the same school or another, where light was allowed to get. Otherwise, they would in the end workersfor the state factories are living in misery.
Graduation and job assignment - the process
After graduating with an average number of all classes, including the thesis was compiled and presented a hiring freeze committee. The committee consisted of representatives from various ministries, the vacancies had been established by the Ministry of National Planning. We were the list of all openings, 150 jobs as many as we were given and asked to increase before this committeeone at a time in the range of our quality with the highest degree first, was exhausted to accommodate the desired job to the list.
Do we have the choice to refuse employment to any of the listed? No, it was years established by the Government place where you were five to go to work for a minimum. This was the free education guaranteed you a job.
If you were not connected, and many of my colleagues were and so was I. We all have our duties, reported the workassigned place and within a week, we worked out a transfer to our desired location, which was not even listed by the Committee on Employment. We had to get approved for ministry and we did.
Not everyone was happy to know that at least we were busy engineers and engineers, most factories were located in relatively large cities with a theater and some social activities.
Doctors and teachers were the unhappiest. They were assigned to small, remote villages and had to staythere for five years. It was virtually impossible to transmit, even if a company is willing to find rentals. National ID cards you remember? This is how the government pursues, who and where these people were held and made sure they stayed there.
Stalin used this strategy quite successfully. In 1968, while working for the Romanian airline, I spent two months in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, when it was part of the Soviet Union. This was a great plant for the maintenance of Soviet made passengerAircraft. The engineering support team consisted of 35 engineers and technicians, all Russian, not even a non-Russian or Uzbek.
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