[sdpd] Re: Developing countries and SDPD Internet Course

[Armel Le Bail <armel...@fluo.univ-lemans.fr>]

>If the aim is to get a better distribution of overseas
>students, wouldn't it more effective to base it on
>"capacity to pay" - rather than a "fixed discount" on a 
>French person's capacity to pay?

In the case of an Internet-based course, I would rather
use a "capacity to access Internet" as a criterion.
Moreover, no student currently pays the fees by itself.
The institutions take the registration in charge.

Lachlan may suggest to Philips, Bruker and Rigaku
(plus some others) to sell their diffractometers at a cost
determined on a "capacity to pay" basis. And the same
for a computer sold by DELL, or a software sold by MSI.
That logic has some limits. Even IUCr does not practice such
a "capacity to pay" method when calculating the registration
fees to their International Congress. And the 4-stars hotel
selected for the EPDIC-7 in Barcelona (a so wonderful place)
has no such policy as well. Sleeping 2 nights is equivalent to the
1625 FF of the reduced SDPD Course fees. And for that money,
you will not eat...

Are there several powder diffractometers in Bangladesh ?

Best,


Armel Le Bail - Université du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/