Huh. I had an Amstrad in the 80s. It was basically an IBM-PC clone. Had a choice of DR-DOS or MS-DOS, and this weird "Gem" window system.
Is that the same system? I believe we got it from a local store in Fort Worth, Texas.
In Sweden, higher education is split into "school of higher education" ("högskola") and "university" ("universitet").
To become a university, a school of higher education must perform a certain amount of research rather than just teaching, and depending on the subject, a school of higher education might only be allowed to award bachelor's degrees, whereas a university can award master's degrees and doctorates.
In English communications, most of these institutions call themselves a "university", regardless of whether they are an "universitet" in the Swedish system.
Is there any distinction like this in the UK or US systems? Is there a shorthand for expressing something similar to this distinction in English?
I know the US has some community colleges that don't call themselves universities, but I don't know if that's anything more than an informal prestige thing or if there is an actual difference in services? And then there are a bunch of places that call themselves "university" but don't seem very serious at all, so I guess it's not a protected title?
Given how most Americans can't afford a lawyer and how those Americans who can afford a lawyer use said lawyer to abuse the legal system to their gain...
Let's just stop and take a moment and realize how amazing it is that this country has a longstanding public defender system.
Is it perfect? No, of course not. But imagine how fucked we'd be without it.
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