ARE YOUNG BRITS LESS INTELLIGENT THAN POLES?

Hey,yes I wrote you.The ranking is important in GB,the university the foreigner studies is recognized as equal inside EU regardless of ranking because he takes advantage of EU law which takes into account majority of european continental universities which are considered as equal.EU law does not make exception for english low ranking universities,this is where foreign students rely to equalize their degrees.


The real reason is that these Skandinavians failed to enter the skandinavian medical univeristies due to heavy competition(for example Norway accepts only 600 candidates from the thousands who apply).They are afraid to study in Germany because university exams are very strict,they cannot study in UK because the entrance to medical universities in UK is competitive as well and they avoid France because there are numerus clausus competitive exams in second year.

That is why they choose Poland,Slovakia etc because they are easily accepted and get a degree.

It is true that many English universities will lower their admissions criteria in order to accept international students and, more importantly, the fees they pay.

I would prefer to be happy than intelligent any time, unfortunately I am neither.

IME usually an average Polish university student has no problem in transferring and doing well at a typical US or UK university, this includes dealing with the language barrier.

An average US university student would not be able to cope at a typical Polish university, not including the langugage barrier.

FWIW

FWIW that is utter bollocks. Poland has no universities in the same League as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard etc.

I was an average UK student and if I could speak Polish, I could have been an average Polish student (not that I would want to).

My g/f transferred from the best uni in Krakow to....

wait for it....

The University of Middlesex.

'nuff said.

ARE YOUNG BRITS LESS INTELLIGENT THAN POLES?
No, well maybe, actually quite possibly, YES defiantly.

I did not say it does. I used words like 'average' and 'typical'. Let's look at that quote again:

"an average Polish university student has no problem in transferring and doing well at a typical US or UK university"


Your reading comprehension suggests otherwise.

why dont you compare the technological, scientific, artistic and philosophical contributions given to the world by britain and poland.

what has poland ever contributed ? and nothing obscure, tell us something substantial.

me and that's enough

i dont believe in this....every person no matter where they are from will do the work if they put their brains to it...the reason you get alot of better students in poland is because they need to get good grades at uni to be able to live a good life in poland....

This is a personal observation after working in England as a teacher, and I found that the majority of teenagers in the UK lack personal motivation to learn, and in contrast this is exactly the opposite in Poland.

Maybe it is driven by an historical factor, where survival of the fittest comes into play?
One of the reasons that I decided to bring my daughter up in a Polish education system is that I feel she will have more opportunity with regards to University education than she would in England.

But as to which is better overall you cannot really compare them, as they are two different systems, and it seems a bit playgroundish to do so.

My example would suggest otherwise. What defines typical? Stop talking bollocks.


My comprehension is fine. I just take issue with the utter bollocks you have posted. Your argument has no basis whatsoever.

Sorry.



True true.

I scored 133 in an iq test and it also said I won a free car for participating. I am sure it will arrive any time soon.

I think this is something that is plaguing the western world.

It was an Englishman who invented the WWW and Scotsmen who invented just about everything else.

At the end of the day whose language are you speaking?

So lets talk about intelligence. And then lets talk about intelligence.

I applaud the motivation of young Poles, their parents push them really hard too. They don't mind that they are put through misery in order to get somewhere. Brits are getting complacent

If you look at the Nobel Prize laureates by country, UK is second in the number of Nobel Prize laureates in the World, right after the US. That is a huge achievement for a rather small country like the UK. And it pretty much proves that the UK educational system is a superior system above all the others.

As far as the Polish educational system goes, IMO the number of Polish educated engineers, doctors and collage professors doing manual work for a minimum wage in the UK pretty much proves my point.

Is one nation "smarter" then the other? I don't think so, people are the same everywere.

But there must be some kind of a problem either with the Polish educational system, or maybe with the Polish culture, or possibly with both. The prove is in the pudding.

If only that were true the average grad can expect to earn circa. 18k a year - a Solicitor training gets only about 14K thats after they have graduated uni with a law degree..., not sure where you get your numbers from Mr R but it's simply not true..You only have to look at the graduate training programmes in all the large companies and the salaries they offer...

do you want to say that studying here is just a waste of time?i only know 2 people here who have a degree and are really well off.maybe they are just lucky?

it's not that straightforward.there are diffrent jobs and different wages.i think that it's worth having a go.just my opinion.

I am in no way saying that its not the way to go because I think it is, but there isnt a pot of gold waiting at the end of the rainbow, your friends are obviously not recent grads, like anything building a career takes time but having a degree is something that opens more doors...

The thread is about intellectual achievements, not about who made how much in what short period of time. Your example doesn't disprove Polonius3's point.

Besides, wouldn't it be great if Ronaldinho had some brains to go with his physical skills? Last weekend I met Michael "Pinball" Clemons. Very intelligent and well rounded person, not just a pile of muscles and joints.


It all depends in what country, what specialty and on some politics. Polish degrees are also recognized around the world. Mine were in the US and Canada.Polish secondary school diplomas have been recognized in UK since at least 1980's.

You can become a Ronaldhinio every day.No need for PhD.

i can't believe this topic, i mean really how low do people want to stoop to slag of the english???

too true :)


"ffffsshhheeeeeewww",thats the sound of that point flying way over the heads of the jingoists :)

Well, I guess we are never gonna know the true answer as young Brits are just too lazy to take the IQ tests, NOT. It serves no purpose.