Posted AT 5:37 AM EST on 22/09/05
Universities try to cope with students lacking basics
The lack of basic writing and math skills among incoming students has become so dire that one Canadian university has resorted to "academic spies " -- two Sherlock Holmes types who pore over stacks of test scores.
The University of Ottawa has taken the extraordinary step of hiring these two full-time statisticians who have the unique job of weeding out students at risk of academic disaster early in their school year.
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