Paying for university

[jim]

I mentioned it earlier and you didn't comment on it, and it's not as obvious as some jobs (IE doctor) so I figured Id breifly explain, I wasn't trying to be patronising.
I'm not really sure what other degrees would better suit these kind of jobs.

Personally, I think the idea of a "degree suiting a job" is a bit insane.

A good degree teaches you to be concise, to communicate well, to evaluate evidence, and to come to reasonable, balanced and logical conclusions. That's what it's all about.

With those skills, you can go on to do pretty much any job (not all, admittedly), with the right training once you arrive.

Very few employers, I would suggest, expect to get people straight out of Uni and then drop them straight into a high-level job on the basis that their degree was so specific and so well taught that no further training is required.

I think that's one of the big failures of education today. People don't do chemistry, they do forensic science degrees. I could continue this theme, but I can't be bothered right now tbh! There's this idea that you have to do a degree that leads directly somewhere, and you need to do a very specific course. Any academic, well-taught degree will teach you the skills you need to have a successful career, not just the ones that lead directly into those careers.

[Bugbait]

Any academic, well-taught degree will teach you the skills you need to have a successful career, not just the ones that lead directly into those careers.

Spot on. If more students realised this they wouldn’t be seen as such as waste of space (joking…sort of).

[neonplanet40]

Thank you for the information, let me know so much about your information

Lols w00t? ^^^

Anyway interesting move by the lib dems to appease the students with the free years fee's etc. But if they can afford to do this for low income families and then also get the universities to pay for the second year then technically the student only needs to pay for their final year which would cost pretty much the same as the three years cost now. £9,000 or so.

So if they are able to do this then why are the bothering increasing them at all?

[Moleie]

I'm not really sure that the courses you suggest better fit the carears I mentioned.

It is possibley also worth mentioning that on my particular course I'm one of the only English students, the course is predominatly made up of International Students many of whom are being sponsored by there governments and have quite high powered jobs. (Diplomats and high ranking members of the military.) It would seem ashame to take away (or make it harder) for British sudents to have these oppertunities, forign governments and societies would end up benerfitting more from British Educational Resources than the British themselfs.

With that said, it is possibly time to agree to disagree on media.

[Blitzen]

I'm not really sure that the courses you suggest better fit the carears I mentioned.

It is possibley also worth mentioning that on my particular course I'm one of the only English students, the course is predominatly made up of International Students many of whom are being sponsored by there governments and have quite high powered jobs. (Diplomats and high ranking members of the military.) It would seem ashame to take away (or make it harder) for British sudents to have these oppertunities, forign governments and societies would end up benerfitting more from British Educational Resources than the British themselfs.

With that said, it is possibly time to agree to disagree on media.

I don't want to act as the 'grammar police', but you really need to take another look over this post.

[Baggio18]

I'm not really sure that the courses you suggest better fit the carears I mentioned.

It is possibley also worth mentioning that on my particular course I'm one of the only English students, the course is predominatly made up of International Students many of whom are being sponsored by there governments and have quite high powered jobs. (Diplomats and high ranking members of the military.) It would seem ashame to take away (or make it harder) for British sudents to have these oppertunities, forign governments and societies would end up benerfitting more from British Educational Resources than the British themselfs.

With that said, it is possibly time to agree to disagree on media.

Removing all those full fee paying international students (sponsored by their governments, by their parents, that is irrelevant) is hardly going to help the financial situation (where are you going to find that >£12k/year that they are each paying?).
In a way, those fees probably go towards subsidizing locals student fees, keeping it below £10k a head.

[Moleie]

Removing all those full fee paying international students (sponsored by their governments, by their parents, that is irrelevant) is hardly going to help the financial situation (where are you going to find that >£12k/year that they are each paying?).
In a way, those fees probably go towards subsidizing locals student fees, keeping it below £10k a head.

I'm in no way suggesting they should be removed!
In a responce to the crticism that media courses aren't useful to society, I was using them as an example that forign governments clearly see it as a useful course to society.

[usxhe190]

Moleie, what are you saying??!!