Sorry, 1st and 2nd level would bring you up to the end of Americian highschool. They are the levels everyone usually has an automatic right to. 3rd level is University education.
By 1st and 2nd, I guess I should have said primary and secondary education.
On the subject if IP, I do actually agree that students should retain ownership of ideas they come up with themselves while on campus. But I firmly believe something is fishy in this case. If it were just a random idea students came up with in class I fail to see how the university even got wind of it. I mean did the professor run telling tales to the Uni administrators? This story, as reported, sounds too suspicious to me.
-Eóin
Ah... that being the case, then I still sort of disagree. I think that undergraduate students *are* more on the level of lower levels of education. A bit different, but not wholly. Especially given the nature of private schools in lower education. post-graduate work is a different issue. Undergraduate students do have more investment in making sure that the quality of their education is up to standards, but professors still retain some measure of responsibility in this process. For post-graduate work, I'd say this level of accountability is lessened, if not removed entirely. But at that point, for most students it is more of a partnership in education than a true student-teacher relationship, IMO; though elements of that still remain, they are definitely lessened.
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