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The decline and fall of the West.(Education)(Essay)
THERE HAVE BEEN many complaints in recent times about the failures of the educational system. Professor James Allan of the University of Queensland wrote an article in the Australian on April 11 in which he bemoaned the inability of undergraduates to write English sentences. In this article I shall explain how things are much, much worse than he or almost anybody else imagines.
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Source: HighBeam Research, The decline and fall of the West.(Education)(Essay)