@Everyone
Universities are far too easy to get into these days and a lot of what they teach is pure bollox.

Girl I knew back in England was accepted for a degree in CHILD MINDING!!! And, the thing is, she's thick as a castle wall.

Other's I know who have been accepted onto degree courses are little better.

I was having an argument in the pub with a mate about education these days and I was saying that standards now are so low that an O Level in Maths when I was in School was about equivalent to an A level theses days.

Tourist butted in:

"You're right.."

"How do you know?" said mate

"I'm a maths teacher....."

That said, I've interviewed many IT graduates over the years and been amazed at how totally *useless* they were. And they were expecting 25K as an entry level salary. In their fucking dreams......

Nah. A Uni degree these days isn't worth wiping my arse on. Dumbed down, puffed up and a mockery compared to the degrees of old.

Bring back apprenticeships. Bring back decent technical colleges. Make university hard to get into so only the brightest and best can apply and then then ramp up the standards. Uni should be hard to get into and hard to complete.

And bring back full grants, abolish tuition fees. If we cut back the number of students by %50 then we can afford to give grants again.

While I'm on reforming the educations system, abolish Mickey Mouse degrees as well. Out with media-studies and sociology and in with more science and engineering. And, if I had my way, most of the Arts subjects would be tossed in the bin as well. We need scientists and engineers. We need another media studies graduate or a fine arts graduate like we need cancer.

Oh - and abolish all marketing degrees and shoot the lectures and graduates.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 6:46, Reply)