<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jannw</author><text>The distinction becoming vague is due to the changes regarding the Bologna Process&amp;#x2F;European Qualification Framework - whereby both Universities and Technical Colleges both award bachelor degrees (EQF6) ... and if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and awards the same EQF paper at the end, then it&amp;#x27;s the same! I&amp;#x27;ve taught in a programme that is offered in both Universities and Technical Colleges (Law) ... and the distinction becomes that universities are more theory based, whereas technical colleges are more practical ... and that matriculating into a university offered masters programme in NL from a technical college awarded bachelors is made harder (even with the same EQF6 paper) ... not that any other university in the EU would care about the distinction!</text><parent_chain><item><author>em500</author><text>Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 &amp;quot;hogescholen&amp;quot; marketing themselves as  &amp;quot;University of Applied Sciences&amp;quot; in English that are not allowed to claim to be &amp;quot;universiteiten&amp;quot; in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions).</text></item><item><author>bjornsing</author><text>A related anecdote: Jönköping University is not allowed to call itself a university in Swedish (“universitet”), since that word is, by law, reserved for institutions that meet certain requirements. To get around this it uses the English name “Jönköping University” in Swedish as well. But formally it’s a so called “högskola”, more often translated as ”college”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper</title><url>https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fl7305</author><text>&amp;gt; reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions&lt;p&gt;So &amp;quot;Technische Universiteit Delft&amp;quot; is not an advanced institution?&lt;p&gt;In either case, in Sweden &amp;quot;högskola&amp;quot; covers everything from small rinky-dink schools up to KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskola) in Stockholm and CTH (Chalmers Tekniska Högskola) which are among the top engineering schools in Sweden.&lt;p&gt;Both award doctoral degrees. I have not heard many people in Sweden argue that KTH&amp;#x2F;CTH are not as advanced as the top universities. The difference is just that the technical schools do not have departments for the humanities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>em500</author><text>Similar as the Netherlands: there 37 &amp;quot;hogescholen&amp;quot; marketing themselves as  &amp;quot;University of Applied Sciences&amp;quot; in English that are not allowed to claim to be &amp;quot;universiteiten&amp;quot; in Dutch (a name is reserved for 14 more academically advanced institutions).</text></item><item><author>bjornsing</author><text>A related anecdote: Jönköping University is not allowed to call itself a university in Swedish (“universitet”), since that word is, by law, reserved for institutions that meet certain requirements. To get around this it uses the English name “Jönköping University” in Swedish as well. But formally it’s a so called “högskola”, more often translated as ”college”.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper</title><url>https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/</url></story>