Lester_Bigot Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Its seems everyone has a degree these days, whoever I speak to under the age of 35 has been to university and has got a degree. This puts my finest grade, of E in Woodwork to shame. On a serious note. Most of our jobs appear to be going overseas, because, the British Workforce are poorly qualified and are lacking in the skills that are needed We are importing overseas workers, because the British Workforce are not qualified and lacking in skills that are needed. My point is. What the heck are our students learning/or doing when they are at University ???? Am I missing something? Pooly skilled/qualified workforce, high proportion of University Graduates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 What the heck are our students learning/or doing when they are at University ???? Media studies, Diversity Studies, Comparative Religion, Sociology, Tourism and Recreation Studies etc etc Much better to learn Bricklaying or plumbing then choose your own hourly rate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crayfish Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Yeah, there's such a push and social stigma to go to University that a lot of people do it without actually thinking about whether their degree will give them useful skills or be a valuable qualification in the future. It's wierd that degrees are created that are essentially barely recognised as useful qualifications / experience, and it devalues decent degrees to employers who don't have time or knowledge to discriminate between good and poor quality subjects / universities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magneteer Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Since A levels have been dumbed down so much, I doubt that there are many who are capable of studying for useful degrees such as engineering, science etc. It's much easier to do a degree in media studies and the like even though it is of little worth to either the individual or the nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Kingsley Amis saw this coming forty years ago, and described it in as brief a comment as I think is possible: More means Worse. A university degree used to prove that you were in the top five per cent of all students, and you were treated accordingly. 'O' levels used to prove you were in the top 25%, and you were treated accordingly. Nowadays, a university degree puts you on a par with more than half the population, and GCSE's are designed to be passed by absolutely everybody, so they don't prove a damn thing. And job candidates ...are treated accordingly. A degree doesn't mark you out as anything special any more. As to a bunch of GCSE's, they're not even worth taking. They don't even prove that you are not a complete and utter moron. All of which, basically, comes from the notion that we need three-quarters of our population to be in the top ten per cent of the population when it comes to academic achievement. Anybody else see the problem with trying to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinbass Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 And all this leads to a general attitude that all students must be doing pointless degrees and so the fact that I'm studying law doesn't matter to many people. As far as they're concerned I'm a student and so am a financial burden for taxpayers to bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donuticus Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Im about to start studying Film Direction, Im being sent by my current employer (a national TV Production company) who are paying for the course at their expense. But I suppose that as its a media related course it must be worthless, my boss will be so pleased. He likes nothing more than sending staff away on three year holidays on full pay. I suppose because im studying a worthless degree, thats what im going on obviously. :loopy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 It's the 50% or more who don't do degrees who face most problems when trying to get a job. Whatever happened to apprenticeships for plumbers, electricians, joiners etc? That's the sort of skills that are needed by a lot of kids to make a decent living - that's the skills that Poles etc seem to have and our kids don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diva25uk Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 I'm 26 and I'm about to start studying for 3 A levels tomorrow and then I'm going to uni to do medicine. I don't think that is a wasted degree/Phd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom3t0 Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 because they are all alcoholics after attending? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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