Well, there's a surprise...

[Euro-commuter]

A 20% dropout rate from uni...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6915622.stm.

It must be getting a lot easier, because it used to be about 50%.

[wendigo100]

Didn't you have to wait a bit for it to dry?

[OrangeHopper]

Purple print that smelled good!

[zeitghost]

In fact it's quite funny, because if they don't get the photocopied handouts, they start complaining...

Should be grateful they don't get those peculiar gestetner printouts that smelled so odd that we were blessed with way back when...

[zeitghost]

No chalk boards any more... all either OHP or projector.

And the little gits don't know how to take notes, coz they get spoon fed with photocopied handouts.

[wendigo100]

it'll just be your blackboard and thee, soon Zeity!

Chalkboard

Is it one of those rollover ones, or a slidy one they seem to reserve for physics lectures?

[zeitghost]

it'll just be your blackboard and thee, soon Zeity!

At the current rate of progress you're right...

After all, engineering is moderately difficult & you have to actually do some modicum of work to pass...

And judging by this year's results, very few have bothered... 1st year dire, 2nd year even more dire...

Doomed etc.

I think I'd better find another job.

[Burdock]

it'll just be your blackboard and thee, soon Zeity!

[richard-af]

The daughter of one of my friends has just obtained a degree in Meeja Studies.

She's now an EO in the DVLA or whatever it's called... earning more than me, though that's not exactly difficult these days.

Back in the dark 1980s, I knew a near brain-dead woman who did some sort of Humanities & Drama degree. Ended-up on £80k - in 1989! Her job had nowt to do with the degree course. Bah!

[zeitghost]

The daughter of one of my friends has just obtained a degree in Meeja Studies.

She's now an EO in the DVLA or whatever it's called... earning more than me, though that's not exactly difficult these days.

[richard-af]

A 20% dropout rate from uni...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6915622.stm

I'm shocked.

Horrified.

Alarmed.

Despondent.

Etc.

It's the courses - they're too demanding:
Media Studies & Knitting
Watching Telly & Media Studies
Watching Telly, Knitting & Media Studies
etc.

[sasguru]

Why bother with a degree? Having an illegitimate child will get you a flat, an income and other stuff. It's a no-brainer

[zeitghost]

A 20% dropout rate from uni...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6915622.stm

I'm shocked.

Horrified.

Alarmed.

Despondent.

Etc.