Is it worth...

[threaded]

What did she study?

Can't look it up on internet, that would be cheating!

Doesn't matter what she studied, because in the days of yore that was on every school mathematics syllabus, so she should have been taught it.

[MickeyP]

This has been in the paper every year since the late nineties, if not before. NL's doctrine of 'everybody deserves a degree' has had the effect of devaluing them to the point where they really don't differentiate that much anymore.

When I graduated in 91 I felt it was easier than my a-levels! As you say there was a graduate jobs shortage even then. I simply went back to Mumsy and drove a fork lift truck for a living for a while. Happy days they were.

[shelby68]

I don't know why you’re all so concerned, it's only Liverpool students, probably no one will employ them because they're scousers.

[shelby68]

NL's doctrine of 'everybody deserves a degree' has had the effect of devaluing them to the point where they really don't differentiate that much anymore.

That is so true, I worked for clientCo a couple of years ago where the whole help desk was staffed by grads on 13k, makes you wonder what they wasted 3 yrs for. One guy had a degree in applied mathamatics and was helping fix printers.

[PAH]

Maybe the real benefit of higher education is we could do degree after degree, all the while racking up student debt that would never need to be paid off if you did this till retirement age. Sort of a posh benefits scrounger.

[DieScum]

You guys are far too cynical.

A good education has loads of benefits. The way that the UK will compete in the future is by taking advantage of a highly educated workforce.

Personally for me I got so many benefits out of uni that just wouldn't have happened if I had become an apprentice plumber

I moved away from a small town to the big city. I think this gives important mobility to the workforce. People are used to moving around and more confident about it.

I learned skills. In my undergraduate degree I learned to speak foreign language, lived abroad for a year, read some great books, learnt I wasn't very good at writing essays. In my postgrad I learned to program and about databases and stuff. These are things that have earnt me a lot of money.

It was also a great laugh and that is important as well. Made good mates, met beautiful women, had a lot of fun.

[Churchill]

You guys are far too cynical.

The way that the UK will compete in the future is by taking advantage of a highly educated workforce.

cheap foreign

hth.

[Moscow Mule]

There is no point doing a degree these days unless it's vocational (by that I mean Medicine, Architecture, Teaching, Nursing or similar).

There are two many wishy washy degrees for kids that don't have a clue what they want to do with the next 5 years of their lives, let alone the next 30.

[MrRobin]

Doesn't matter what she studied, because in the days of yore that was on every school mathematics syllabus, so she should have been taught it.

Quite. I don't think the basic GCSE maths exams goes much past fractions these days.

[HRH]

Fact is Unis will let in any tom dick and harry in these days to take micky mouse courses. Kids in the 60's 70's 80' went to study, kids now go because its 'expected' and to have a piss up. Go to any uni town and its like Magaluf in June (minus the weather)