Throw in season tickets in perpetuity for the Diamondbacks and you've got a deal, Duke!!!

Oh ... and you'll have to swear allegiance to Her Majesty ...

I’m not saying they’re being exploited, but to ask them to pay for their internships is completely silly. The fee is supposed to compensate the school and the teacher for the extra work to supervise the student.

But the supervision effort for the permanent teacher is not nearly as intense than what you’re describing for a nurse. In fact, in the final internship the teacher has in fact far less work since the student is responsible for lesson preparation, corrections, class discipline, etc. All the permanent teacher does is review the work and provide counsel.

In Quebec, students studying to become teachers have 3 mandatory internships. Not only are they not paid for these internships, they actually have to pay for them. In the third internship, the student completely takes over the class from the regular teacher.

Meanwhile the regular teacher enjoys a nice little bonus to "supervise" the student.

"Complex negotiations fail to stir controversy!"

Well there was an odd moment where Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette tried to shove freshly slaughtered seal meat down the throat of the chief EU negotiator.

;-)

Unfortunately, I don’t think it works that way. Social services like Universities or Hospital are more likely a consequence of higher level of development than the other way around. I’m with Anon about the governance issue; the biggest factor holding back Africa right now is probably the lack of credible institutions. Although, I don’t it’s just a matter of "copying" our system of government.

For one thing, these things take time. Our system has evolved over several centuries and we now have integrated it on a cultural level. It’s not the laws or the institutions that are keeping (mostly) corruption free; it’s the largely held belief that they are manage in a fair and transparent way. You can vote all the laws you want, if the population doesn’t think you’re going to enforce them for everyone, it might as well not exist.

Also, I don’t think that western nations are very effective at spreading that system around. For several decades, we’ve essentially been trying to black mail developing country into adopting better systems of governance with international aid, with very little success might I had. The problem is that unless you see good public administration as an end in itself, you’re going to find ways around it. Plus, there’s the rather arrogant presumption that our system of governance is the best and that it can be applied to any culture around the world. I for one, I’m a big believer in spontaneous order; the best system is the system that emerge spontaneously and is accepted by the people on the ground. And when we’re dropping in with our management textbooks, our millions of dollars in aid and our bright ideas, where preventing that order from developing.

You're right Rob! Lets impose a special tax on old cranky pundits and extract some compensation from Paul Wells. ;-)

As someone who actually studies in Quebec, I whole heartily agree with what Mr Bouchard says. The sad truth is that poor people that don’t make it to University in Quebec drop out in high school or don’t make it through CEGEP. Even the student loans are a joke; I’m eligible to about $1,500 of interest free loan every year. And I live at home with financially well-off parents and I’ve got a confortable part-time student job with the federal government. I know a fair number of people who just stick their student loan in a high interest saving account.

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