We aren't alone in this madness though. In fact we appear to be slipping down the league table of how many useless graduates we churn out.
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A'level results day.
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It's starting to remind me of Brave New World. You can't have a society made up entirely of Alpha Pluses, there'll be no one left to do the menial jobs.Comment
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Unless one embarks upon a Degree that is particularly applicable to the career you then pursue (e.g.Medicine, Law) then in a great many cases it simply becomes a measure of one's learning capacity and intelligence. To a prospective employer this provides little more information than one's A-Level results did. So one might well ask what is the point in doing many of these Degree Courses? Particularly when one incurs significant personal debt in so doing?
Very little IMHO. Still, each to their own.“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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If you study a "numerate" subject such as maths, physics, engineering etc then you end up learning and hopefully understanding mathematical techniques which will enable you to get results which less well educated people can then dismiss as either "lies" or "bulltulip" or perhaps "magic" depending on whether or not statistics were involved.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIf you study a "numerate" subject such as maths, physics, engineering etc then you end up learning and hopefully understanding mathematical techniques which will enable you to get results which less well educated people can then dismiss as either "lies" or "bulltulip" or perhaps "magic" depending on whether or not statistics were involved.
I always find their unconscious ignorance amusing as they warble on with all the efficacy of a mynah bird, eh Shaun?
PS. The results of statistics are mathematically based, stats is simply applied maths.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYes you can find most of these lesser-eduacted gob-tulips on CUK.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIf you study a "numerate" subject such as maths, physics, engineering etc then you end up learning and hopefully understanding mathematical techniques which will enable you to get results which less well educated people can then dismiss as either "lies" or "bulltulip" or perhaps "magic" depending on whether or not statistics were involved.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYes you can find most of these lesser-eduacted gob-tulips on CUK.
PS. The results of statistics are mathematically based, stats is simply applied maths.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostBut won't lectures be full of people who got an A or B at maths and haven't much aptitude for it, but who are fond of magic? As well as the odd scientific person, who also got an A. And the course go at the pace of the mean magic believers?
I reckon you didn't do very well at school/uni.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostAh an HND.
Or 'Has No Degree' as it's known.Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.Comment
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