Really??? What courses transferred if you don't mind my asking. Because if they did indeed transfer, then the University of Florida owes my brother and nephews an explanation as to why they refused to accept COB electives and humanitarian courses. Their excuse was that COB was not an accredited academic institution. And this was pretty recent (Fall 2013). I would surely like to know what's going on so that I can throw your experience in their face.
Lol.... Credits are not what's evaluated when a student is seeking to transfer credits. The course itself is what is evaluated. This is why universities are required to have course catalogs. Some courses can have two, three, four, even five credits, if a lab is included. So I'm not sure what you meant when you said credits are evaluated credit by credit. Anyway, your statement regarding room and board is correct. However, students can gain willful employment while conducting studies abroad, but it has to be on campus and can only be up to 20hrs per week.
And I hate to say it again, but COB in not considered by global standards to be an accredited institution. I'm not telling you what I think..... I'm telling you what I know from passed and present experiences. I've got three nephews that have attended and graduated COB that can attest to this. COB's course catalog, course discription, course criteria, and course curriculum does not correspond with that of major universities. To be considered an accredited institution, your university must first be a member of the US Board of Collegiate Education and must be evaluated annually to meet a specific standard of academia. If students entering COB were asked to sit an ACT examination, most of them would failed miserably. This is not an indictment on the students, but a result of our failed education system in the Bahamas. For the most part, only private schools here in the Bahamas prepare students for advance college entrance examinations. And this is because schools such as SAC, St Andrews, and Kingsway Academy offer additional classes for US based exams. This is why so many of them ace the mediocre BGCSE. The only reason any student should attend COB is if he/she plans on attending UWI in Jamaica or Barbados.
If not..... they will find that most of their credit hours will not transfer to the US or Canada.
To be honest, I don't know why any student would choose to attend COB at this costs. Especially when universities abroad are offering "out of state tuition waivers" to qualified individuals. In other words..... Bahamian students are only required to pay the same amount of tuition that American students born in that state are required to pay. And I can assure you, per credit hour, some universities are cheaper than the price hike COB is proposing.
Furthermore...... according to global academic standards, COB is considered to be a non-accredited institution. As a result, many of their credits don't transfer to accredited universities abroad. So again..... this begs the question....... why would any student choose to attend COB???
That lighthouse is the symbolic embodiment of the state of our country. News flash........ the entire Bahamas is in a deplorable state of disrepair. Cruise ship crew members should announce to passengers/ tourist that this lighthouse is actually a reflection of the Bahamas itself!
But it's time for those in opposition to stop demanding the resignation of those government officials that are in power. Especially when it's obvious that they won't abdicate their seats. It is a well established fact that the PLP is a bush-leugue government that will never exercise ethics. We all know this.
Yet..... the people of Marathon saw fit to vote for them anyway. Now they're faced with a potentially serious dilemma and are expecting action from a well proven actionless government. Sorry folks.... but it's not going to happen.
What the DNA needs to do is establish themselves as a possible alternative to both the FNM and PLP, rather than accentuating their failings. What solutions does the DNA have regarding critical issues? Who are their candidates for office? Where is their manifesto? Who are their front runners? Until these questions are answered, Bran and his party will remain in obscurity.
I swear...... you're as stupid as they come. I bet my last dollar you're a PLP supporter.
How can I be racist towards blacks, when I myself, am black as tar? I responded to this particular post because its utter nonsense shrouded in ignorance that you are attempting to assimilate into the public domain under the guise of sense. Your initial post was completely irrelavent to the story posted by the Tribune. This in not America...... and it's not a matter of race.
When you post comments that are truthful and possess substance; I usually agree with you. In this case, you're way off base!
@John.... You really make readers sick with all of your black-man white-man rhetorical nonsense!
For your information...... I work in the United States for months out of the year! And many black gun shot victims and murder victims that are admitted to our truma center have been shot and killed by fellow black people; and in many cases black men are shot by black sheriff deputies themselves! I know this because we have to chart "cause of death" reports for the police's ballistic and the medical examiner's office!
Police shoot and kill victims everyday..... and likewise, private citizens shoot and kill police officers everyday as well. And it doesn't even make the news. We just lost a white police officer on Sunday to a gang shooting! As a matter of fact..... the Department of Crime Statistics has confirmed that of the thousands of black males murdered every year, over 97% have come at the hands of fellow black individuals (in the cases that have been solved).
Furthermore.... nothing about this story relates to race or what's going on in the U.S. So please stop using your misplaced sense of bias racism to spread your ignorance! Every story that the Tribune prints, you seem to have some convoluted racial assessment of things. You need to realize that intelligent people read this newspaper and are quite efficient at discerning nonsense! For God's sake, please take the shackles from your ankles! Either that, or confine your ignorance to that hollow space between your ears please.
Cobalt says...
Really???
What courses transferred if you don't mind my asking.
Because if they did indeed transfer, then the University of Florida owes my brother and nephews an explanation as to why they refused to accept COB electives and humanitarian courses. Their excuse was that COB was not an accredited academic institution. And this was pretty recent (Fall 2013). I would surely like to know what's going on so that I can throw your experience in their face.
On Fitzgerald: COB tuition rise must be approved by Cabinet
Posted 23 April 2015, 1:59 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
Lol.... Credits are not what's evaluated when a student is seeking to transfer credits. The course itself is what is evaluated. This is why universities are required to have course catalogs. Some courses can have two, three, four, even five credits, if a lab is included. So I'm not sure what you meant when you said credits are evaluated credit by credit. Anyway, your statement regarding room and board is correct. However, students can gain willful employment while conducting studies abroad, but it has to be on campus and can only be up to 20hrs per week.
And I hate to say it again, but COB in not considered by global standards to be an accredited institution. I'm not telling you what I think..... I'm telling you what I know from passed and present experiences. I've got three nephews that have attended and graduated COB that can attest to this. COB's course catalog, course discription, course criteria, and course curriculum does not correspond with that of major universities. To be considered an accredited institution, your university must first be a member of the US Board of Collegiate Education and must be evaluated annually to meet a specific standard of academia. If students entering COB were asked to sit an ACT examination, most of them would failed miserably. This is not an indictment on the students, but a result of our failed education system in the Bahamas. For the most part, only private schools here in the Bahamas prepare students for advance college entrance examinations. And this is because schools such as SAC, St Andrews, and Kingsway Academy offer additional classes for US based exams. This is why so many of them ace the mediocre BGCSE. The only reason any student should attend COB is if he/she plans on attending UWI in Jamaica or Barbados.
If not..... they will find that most of their credit hours will not transfer to the US or Canada.
On Fitzgerald: COB tuition rise must be approved by Cabinet
Posted 23 April 2015, 10:20 a.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
To be honest, I don't know why any student would choose to attend COB at this costs. Especially when universities abroad are offering "out of state tuition waivers" to qualified individuals. In other words..... Bahamian students are only required to pay the same amount of tuition that American students born in that state are required to pay. And I can assure you, per credit hour, some universities are cheaper than the price hike COB is proposing.
Furthermore...... according to global academic standards, COB is considered to be a non-accredited institution. As a result, many of their credits don't transfer to accredited universities abroad. So again..... this begs the question....... why would any student choose to attend COB???
On Fitzgerald: COB tuition rise must be approved by Cabinet
Posted 23 April 2015, 12:43 a.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
Agreed!
On Building up a better Bahamas through athletics, academics
Posted 22 April 2015, 3:43 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
How ironic.
That lighthouse is the symbolic embodiment of the state of our country.
News flash........ the entire Bahamas is in a deplorable state of disrepair.
Cruise ship crew members should announce to passengers/ tourist that this lighthouse is actually a reflection of the Bahamas itself!
On Lighthouse that stood guard now in need of help
Posted 22 April 2015, 3:39 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
Yes..... the DNA does make a valid point.
But it's time for those in opposition to stop demanding the resignation of those government officials that are in power. Especially when it's obvious that they won't abdicate their seats. It is a well established fact that the PLP is a bush-leugue government that will never exercise ethics. We all know this.
Yet..... the people of Marathon saw fit to vote for them anyway. Now they're faced with a potentially serious dilemma and are expecting action from a well proven actionless government. Sorry folks.... but it's not going to happen.
What the DNA needs to do is establish themselves as a possible alternative to both the FNM and PLP, rather than accentuating their failings. What solutions does the DNA have regarding critical issues? Who are their candidates for office? Where is their manifesto? Who are their front runners? Until these questions are answered, Bran and his party will remain in obscurity.
On DNA: Dorsett and Fitzgerald must resign
Posted 22 April 2015, 3:15 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
I swear...... you're as stupid as they come. I bet my last dollar you're a PLP supporter.
How can I be racist towards blacks, when I myself, am black as tar? I responded to this particular post because its utter nonsense shrouded in ignorance that you are attempting to assimilate into the public domain under the guise of sense. Your initial post was completely irrelavent to the story posted by the Tribune. This in not America...... and it's not a matter of race.
When you post comments that are truthful and possess substance; I usually agree with you. In this case, you're way off base!
On Murder total reaches 44 after three more killings
Posted 22 April 2015, 11:20 a.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
@John.... You really make readers sick with all of your black-man white-man rhetorical nonsense!
For your information...... I work in the United States for months out of the year! And many black gun shot victims and murder victims that are admitted to our truma center have been shot and killed by fellow black people; and in many cases black men are shot by black sheriff deputies themselves! I know this because we have to chart "cause of death" reports for the police's ballistic and the medical examiner's office!
Police shoot and kill victims everyday..... and likewise, private citizens shoot and kill police officers everyday as well. And it doesn't even make the news. We just lost a white police officer on Sunday to a gang shooting! As a matter of fact..... the Department of Crime Statistics has confirmed that of the thousands of black males murdered every year, over 97% have come at the hands of fellow black individuals (in the cases that have been solved).
Furthermore.... nothing about this story relates to race or what's going on in the U.S. So please stop using your misplaced sense of bias racism to spread your ignorance! Every story that the Tribune prints, you seem to have some convoluted racial assessment of things. You need to realize that intelligent people read this newspaper and are quite efficient at discerning nonsense! For God's sake, please take the shackles from your ankles! Either that, or confine your ignorance to that hollow space between your ears please.
On Murder total reaches 44 after three more killings
Posted 21 April 2015, 10 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
He's planning carnival. I thought you knew.
On Generators to arrive at BEC - but Miller not sure if they are enough
Posted 20 April 2015, 3:17 p.m. Suggest removal
Cobalt says...
Lol
On Miller: We are in crisis over crime
Posted 17 April 2015, 1:23 p.m. Suggest removal