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And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014 -
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostInterestingly, old fashioned barbers are doing quite well over here in NL.
It's an apprenticeship trade and if he wanted a degree it would make more sense to do it in something like business once he had his apprenticeship.
(Sorry I didn't make clear the guy was an old fashion barber.)"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostBut do you need a 3 year degree for it?
It's an apprenticeship trade and if he wanted a degree it would make more sense to do it in something like business once he had his apprenticeship.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostNo, it's an apprenticeship or trades school thing; some barbers also offer courses. However, the artist/barber combination seems to work if the creative abilities help to market an old trade. It's obviously a minority interest and probably won't become a mass market thing, but just an example of how the combination of arts training and practical job training can add value and bring a real business to life. Take a look at Welkom There are definitely some artistic/creative types involved in that and it's quite a succesful enterprise. The same principle could be applied to many other trades.
You do some college courses then find a salon where you can finish your training, or train at a hairdressing school however you can open up as a barber/hairdresser without any training what so ever.
In the case of the barber he could have saved himself about £9,000 in fees plus his living expenses by not doing his degree."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
In the case of the barber he could have saved himself about £9,000 in fees plus his living expenses by not doing his degree.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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The student loans company have a 283 column table where they store pretty much every detail about a student's loan.
To fix the obvious performance issues you might expect with that they decided upon that adding a new column and populating it with nulls as they thought that would speed up the oracle database. I tulip you not.Comment
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Presumably this is a result of the government now not selling off the student loan debt:
10 reasons why the privatisation of student loans is a really bad thing - Opinion - Student - The Independent
Student loans sell-off abandonment raises tension in cabinet | Education | The Guardian“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostHere's a crazy idea; seeing as many of the loans don't get repaid as people don't earn enough to repay them, or disappear abroad, why not set up a system whereby people whose parents are unable to fund their studies will be given a sum of money to pay for their living costs for a fixed number of years while they're in full time education? We'll call it a 'student grant' and it might cut out a lot of the admin costs of the student loan system. We'll also put a limit on the number of full time university places that will be funded, and set up some thingies called 'polytechnics' for people who want more practical higher qualifications, so that people won't be forced to pick the easiest coure just to get a useless degree, but will actually be qualified in some field of work? Perhaps this could all be combined with a concept I call 'part time studying', where people work, and study alongside their job at the pace they can manage?
Am I completely mad?
That said, Labour who are moaning the loudest about this, probably have some of the worst "solutions" to the problem. It's politics as usual and so to be expected, but I really would like to know what they propose to do to resolve the whole matter. At the moment, the focus seems to be on getting a degree - any degree - just to say you've been to university.Last edited by Zero Liability; 29 July 2014, 21:54.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostThe student loans company have a 283 column table where they store pretty much every detail about a student's loan.
To fix the obvious performance issues you might expect with that they decided upon that adding a new column and populating it with nulls as they thought that would speed up the oracle database. I tulip you not.
I saw that kind of thing when I was a DBA. Starts as a spreadsheet, then became an Access database thrown together by whoever in the office could operate this newfangled windows thingummy, then became a SQL Server or Oracle monster that couldn't be killed. The rate just can't be high enough for me to go through what I dealt with at a pharmaceutical firm that had done something similar. In their massive table of everything they'd even called columns 'name', 'number', 'date' and the like, which is just really fab if you're trying to migrate the data to a SQL DB.
Still, as long as there are really, really dumb clients, I only need to be a little tiny bit less thick to carry on invoicing.Last edited by Mich the Tester; 29 July 2014, 22:41.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostAnd what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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