Disgusted at UK Uni

[tamborine]

Have heard that public school students have difficulty in getting into UK Uni's, even with top qualifications. Places are reserved for state school & overseas students as they attract extra Gov grants on top of fees?

One local student looking for a doctorate at Oxford was advised to go to Harvard.

[craft1948]

jake whichever way you look at it an employer expects a basic knowledge of english and yes arithmetic. I think a grounding in these subjects demonstrates an ability to absorb knowledge. As I stated previously I am no expert in modern educational standards but found that many graduates fell short of expectations. No, I wasn't training bar staff (though I don't understand that reference) I was involved in the recruitment of telecoms staff, mainly on the network design and planning side.

[jake-the-peg]

The reference is that bar work used to be mostly where you expect people to be good in mental arithmetic.

arithmetic is a very small part of maths, why waste time droning on about a small part of mathematics which is easiliy automated when thing like algebra, probability and statistics are much more relevant.

You can't use Erlang's lost call formula unless you can do algebra but you can easily use a calculator to work out 12x11+3.

An ability to absorb knowledge is easily shown in other ways.

The point is the exams are not as stupidly easy as journalists will have you believe.

Did you look at that paper? can you still factor quatratics without a formula? ( can you remember the formula to solve a quadratic?)

And British students are still beating other European and American ones

[tamborine]

In summary, you agree that ALL students get an equal opportunity to Uni providing they meet the qualifications required. The person I refer to must be 'fibbing' to me - will investigate further.

Meanwhile, If you do have influence into Uni intakes - it would be comforting to think that you would support equal opportinity to home-grown students first.

[jadeymodel]

haha ok I write the way I do on AB simply bcos I can. I do not write in shortened textual style in my uni work. Yeah I do know that forensics is glamorised by the media perhaps and there are 60 graduates each year and 4 in hand get an actual job however many oppertunities lie ahead for me...so I don't get a job as a Forensic...It's 1-Not the end of the world and 2-I will still have a lot to fall back on.

I could specialise in a particular area of Forensics.
I could teach the subject.
Or apply my knowledge to another science related job!

I just do not appreciate people who, like stewey, who imply students see uni as an easy way out of the real world. Its not a walk in the park. For every lecture you have there is an equivalent of ten hour readings to do. It's certainly not easy.

xx

[jadeymodel]

and stewy you have like a million degree's...so why did you go to uni? why didn't you 'get a job'

xx

[tamborine]

J....think he may be retired.

How's the hair - hope my professional experience is not being ignored?