I suppose a degree in Polish is now essential for anyone entering the building trade.

Discounting law and political science, how about some suggestions as to what degrees would be appropriate before letting anyone enter politics?

I’m allergic to politicians, as is the bulk of the population, yet we still seem to get them plastered all over us (Boris is the exception that proves the rule).

Rate This: 0  0

A problem in NL Britain is highly qualified non-achievement. I have a suspicion too many graduates at too many phoney universities is part of the problem. The degrees in watching telly are useless but harmless. But look at the number of managers coming out and the crazy managerialist theories they have had thumped into their inexperienced heads. They have no abilities of any operative use, but have to be important, and they do the that by getting in the way of people trying to do genuinely important real work. It is very difficult to find a proper plumber in England, and hardly anything gets made there any more. Less managerialism would make production much more cost effective. Lets have a few more technical coleges back and far fewer hot air factories.

Good luck on the way to ken’s den.

Paul

Rate This: 0  0

There are already too many graduates washing about with their heads full of half-baked theory gleaned from soft degrees. It is they who make up the swollen ranks of the Interfering Class; it is they who create and fill the thousands of pointless public sector jobs designed to make life awkward for the rest of us and bleed us dry.

None of them wants to get their hands dirty. Meanwhile, people who are trained and ready to tackle the real jobs – the makers and menders – are in such short supply that we have to import them from Eastern Europe.

And the blame for our cockeyed system, in some people’s eyes, lies squarely with Oxford and Cambridge failing to admit enough state school kids!

They might as well blame the weather.

Rate This: 0  0

This insane position taken by the government reminds me of the poor happily married couple whose children were taken away from them because she wasn’t sophisticated and intelligent enough – the big problem was that the mother had learning difficulties as a child and was so concerned she was doing the utmost as a parent she sought help/advice from the State. After State intervention and closed courts they lost the children although they had never failed as parents or harmed their children.

You don’t need a huge amount of intelligence to love a child, wash them, clean their bottoms and clear up sick, cook simple good food and make sure they’re safe. It doesn’t take a degree, you just need to care. A hug doesn’t require book learning.

What will the establishment be doing next – requiring a degree to procreate? And a degree in what pray?? I understand that you can get degrees in surfing and Ghostbusting nowadays. No, Raincoaster is right – it’s self justification and I think a creeping attitude that says ‘if you’re not like us then go to hell’.

Rate This: 0  0

A degree it seems is now the very minimum qualification anyone must have if they are to get anywhere in life. What a load of nonsense. It is symptomatic of the failure of GCSEs and A-levels which have ever increasing pass rates. Next will be degrees and they too will be meaningless. It is already tough for many fresh graduates to get a job simply because the market is awash with people with letters after their name. By all means we should be all given the opportunity to go to university, but the meddling and the targets of the government is a very different approach to the problem indeed.

The government should spend more time on sorting out the education problems in secondary schools for low income families rather than boosting their headline status for sending everyone to university. http://www.pickinglosers.co.uk/

Rate This: 0  0

Rate This: 0  0

It’s a cheap trick to prop up the education mafia, and should not be confused with raising standards; quite the opposite.

Rate This: 0  0