Physics dying out in schools ...

[mcquiggd]

Check out the salaries in the Grauniad for public sector workers... if you are from an 'Ethnic minority', youve got it made.

Physics and Engineering? Why bother when you earn twice as much as a 'five a day coordinator' (and no that isnt to do with an escort agency).

[Dundeegeorge]

Well true

What's all the fuss about?


What has physics ever given us? Some geezer who told us that apples fall from trees? We knew that already mate.

We want more meedja studies innit. Then we can have top TV like I'm a celeb and big bruffa.

That Stephen Hawkins, I bet he doesn't have a new pair of Nikiddas XP 2007 trainers to show for all the rubbish he writes about fisics.

but then he hardly needs them does he?
Now racing stripes for his wheelchair..........
And anyway he isn't a physicist, he's a cosmologist, yeah, yeah I know he holds the Newtonian Chair, but he doesn't do anything with apples (except maybe throw them into black holes...)

[PRC1964]

What's all the fuss about?


What has physics ever given us? Some geezer who told us that apples fall from trees? We knew that already mate.

We want more meedja studies innit. Then we can have top TV like I'm a celeb and big bruffa.

That Stephen Hawkins, I bet he doesn't have a new pair of Nikiddas XP 2007 trainers to show for all the rubbish he writes about fisics.

[The Lone Gunman]

You can get 30K for driving a train!!!

[Bagpuss]

One mate is a Post doc physics researcher at an old Uni, doing MRI image research in brain diseases. Another friend does biochemistry in a post doc cancer research position. Both get less than 23k a year (and one is in London).

[wendigo100]

PS Who here studied physics in school? I did to A-level (when that meant something). It gave me the basics of the scientific method. I am less likely to believe bullcrap such as Chico's rubbish because of that.

I did O-level, then did electronics at college.

Some bloke on the radio today said that his local council was advertising £19,000 for a new Physics teacher, and £36,000 for an equal opportunies administrator. That's today's priorities.

[NoddY]

You lot still don't get it.

It doesn't matter what CFKAE* kids are learning or not learning - we are a net importer of labour. Knowledge is just another comodity to be bought and sold. So, why pay for a decent education when a third world govenment can do it for us! Ditto medicine.

* Country Formally Known As England

[Francko]

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PS Who here studied physics in school? I did to A-level (when that meant something). It gave me the basics of the scientific method. I am less likely to believe bullcrap such as Chico's rubbish because of that.

One of my best friends has got a PhD in Physics. He can't find a job in the University and is studying towards a teaching qualification. It's a pity how few opportunities there are in Physics and how little those studies are valued in the business world.

[sasguru]

... due to a lack of teachers and interest (according to various press reports). For a country that has in the past produced some of the best physicists in the world, this is a disaster. You're more likely to get a better Physics education in India or China than Britain nowadays.
And so the cookie crumbles ....

PS Who here studied physics in school? I did to A-level (when that meant something). It gave me the basics of the scientific method. I am less likely to believe bullcrap such as Chico's rubbish because of that.