How weird Great Britan can be .... :)

To maintain some balance today something that Great Britain should be proud of. Much has been said about educational system in the UK but today I want to put emphasis on who a student is at a university.
Stupid question- tell me who a student is?...a student is a student. What does it mean? Hmm a student is client who has something to do but also can expect something in return. We can expect books in a library, well equipped labs, professional lecturers. In addition we can expect that a university will help us should we need that. My university offers help in many fields: there is a jobshop, there is a hardship found available, members of staff who can teach how to write and cite, nurse will provide with free condoms, there is a contemplation room as well, there are career advisers. What’s more important university staff understand that a student may need some help, may have problems that affect his life in many different ways. To some extend I know I can rely on my University .
Why the university does it? Because the understand that they are a company, which offers certain product and I and other students are clients with different needs.

I studied at the best university in Poland and standards there were much lower. I used to say that at university there is a certain social ladder. At the very top of that ladder there is a principal. A person a normal student hardly ever sees and is not worth to speak to great principal. Then we have lectures with reputation – those people do speak to students but most often they limit their dialogue to simple “You are wrong”. Then there is an admin staff, without their will to help you, to sort your things out you will not progress. Then they are young lecturer- real passionate who can spend lots of time talking to you and they are really cool. Who’s next... a yes a security guy, principal’s dog and finally there are students.

I might be over exaggerating but to some extent a student in Poland is the least important person at a university. A student is a problem provider, someone inferior to everything and everybody at university. A bit harsh? Maybe but this is how things work in Poland.

So yes, studying in Scotland has been a great experience and I would recommend everybody doing so.

oh, btw- it's a pic of my uni, Queen Margaret University.