When many top programmes cost students upwards of $100,000, a few extra thousand dollars spent on international flights seems like a small price to pay for a career-changing qualification, even if you have to endure the indignity of row-by-row boarding.
The vote was suggested by Marc Weitz, one of the club's former presidents, who also took pains to reassure the existing members that "We're not changing the qualifications" for membership.
The focus of the case studies was the recording of changes in work tasks and the resulting consequences for changing or new qualification requirements.
The instrument of the future expert workshops was applied as a fourth instrument for possible and changing needs for qualification.
His sole qualification for changing the face of music forever was that he had a job at Universal's CD pressing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and that he became a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis (RNS).
African Universities and its Medical Schools, supported by internal and external organizations, are trying to cope with this paradigm, changing their degree and qualification systems within European reforms [ 8- 11].
That means, among other things, changing attitudes to educational qualifications.
But while there is work to do on changing perceptions of vocational qualifications in the UK, in Switzerland, the apprenticeship route is a genuinely respected and valued alternative to university.
"What we are in now is qualification tests," said Whitesides. "In [the] development test, you are changing things, in [the] qualification test you are proving to yourself that you can build it the same every time and that when you fire it, it does the same thing every time".
