A'level results day.

[TimberWolf]

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.

[Bunk]

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.

[shaunbhoy]

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.

[doodab]

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.

[sasguru]

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.

Yes you can find most of these lesser-eduacted gob-tulips on CUK.
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.

[Mich the Tester]

Yes you can find most of these lesser-eduacted gob-tulips on CUK.

Is you dissin' my eduaction?

[TimberWolf]

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.

But 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?

[doodab]

Yes 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.

Yes, I know. The joke was that to the general public statistics are lies and everything else is bulltulip.

[sasguru]

But 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?

Yod do come out with some right crap.
I reckon you didn't do very well at school/uni.

[Scrag Meister]

Ah an HND.

Or 'Has No Degree' as it's known.

Its the degree squeezed into 2 years for the really able. :P