Well, there's a surprise...

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Euro-commuter replied

1 August 2007, 14:45
Originally posted by zeitghost

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%.
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wendigo100 replied

1 August 2007, 14:29
Didn't you have to wait a bit for it to dry?
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OrangeHopper replied

1 August 2007, 14:26
Purple print that smelled good!
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zeitghost replied

1 August 2007, 14:08
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...
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zeitghost replied

1 August 2007, 14:06
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.
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wendigo100 replied

1 August 2007, 14:05
Originally posted by Burdock

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?
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zeitghost replied

1 August 2007, 14:04
Originally posted by Burdock

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.
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Burdock replied

1 August 2007, 13:59
it'll just be your blackboard and thee, soon Zeity!
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richard-af replied

1 August 2007, 13:59
Originally posted by 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.

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!
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zeitghost replied

1 August 2007, 13:55
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.
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richard-af replied

1 August 2007, 13:53
Originally posted by zeitghost

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.
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sasguru replied

1 August 2007, 13:51
Why bother with a degree? Having an illegitimate child will get you a flat, an income and other stuff. It's a no-brainer
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zeitghost started a topic Well, there's a surprise...

1 August 2007, 13:49
Well, there's a surprise...

A 20% dropout rate from uni...

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

I'm shocked.

Horrified.

Alarmed.

Despondent.

Etc.
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