Talk:Student
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Alternative of "Freshman"
What should be used as an alternative to "freshman" to avoid sexism?? For high school, "ninth grader" is obvious, of course, but how about for college?? As far as I know, my best guess is "first-year college student". Any comments?? 66.245.120.243 14:01, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- "Freshman" is not so much sexist as nonsensical. Do you have female congressmen in the US too? In my first year at university, I was a fresher. — Chameleon My page/My talk 16:28, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Here, it's usually "First Year", "Second Year", etc. Adding "university student" is more formal. Holy sock
UK higher ed
Just thought I ought to make a note about my change. I removed: "In Scotland, these courses are generally 1 year longer. Scottish school pupils tend to finish school 1 year earlier than in England and Wales, so end up finishing their education at the same time." This is patently untrue, since some Scottish school pupils go to English universities, and vice-versa. Some take a gap-year. Some students start university in their 50s... there is no "set time" for leaving university. Scottish degrees tend to be MAs and English ones tend to be BAs, and this has got mixed up somewhere to mean "Scottish [high] school pupils are given longer university courses"... Taras
Third year or above??
The definitions in this article say "first" "second", "third or above", and "fourth and last". Is this a logical sequence?? It doesn't look like one to me. 66.245.105.240 15:18, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- You're right. I've edited the sentence. AJD 03:29, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Clarification of International Student Day
I had to do click past a link to find out the meaning behind it was really based on the Czech republic's actions during World War II. Someone should really be more specific, since it really is mainly a Czech thing. - Kade 00:02, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
