What on Earth did he need to get into Cardiff?Originally Posted by tomcat
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What on Earth did he need to get into Cardiff?
I know, he has worked voluntarily in a care home on Sundays for a year, joined St Johns Ambulance, spent an hour each Saturday night helping disabled kids swim and got a top 3% in the UKCAT score. Absolute disgrace, we're going to every away game as well until he goes away. I promised I'd come up and take him to all the "local" games to Sheffield in the season coming. Bloody joke, my mate wants to see our local MP about it, he was on the verge of tears about the injustice of it!
Just proves she has a good memory. University is a waste of time and money, get her to work and do an apprenticeship at the same time. Life skills as well as a good memory
That is a dreadful, awful thing to say to someone who's daughter has just smashed her A levels.
You really need to feel ashamed.
Agreed. What a clown this guy is.
Oh f*ck off
You can't buy memories I am afraid.
And University has 1,2,3 + years of some of my best. And what I imagine will be her best.
Although you will find the people that tend to drink a lot will have this opinion.
If you find the perfect mix of working/going out happy days.
I massively failed at finding that mix.
Too much education reliant on the ability to memorise robotic teaching. Fact.
Problem I have is a lot of grads get their degrees, expect a magical high paying job when in the real world, not good enough to justify it. That's a consequence of trying to get more and more into universities along with pushing polys into being universities - some of the quality is diluted.
More funding needs to go into more vocational education - hands on rather than academic. Plenty going to Uni at the moment would be better served by such alternative choices.
Fantastic post and I 100% agree. There is a lot of snobbery when it comes to Universities within families and neighbours but people can do full degrees whilst working full time!! A lot of money wasted by families sending their kids to Universities, making up for the fact that they didn't go. Vocational is the way to go.
It's not just families though, it's consequence of successive governments of all ilks emphasising University courses over everything else.
Why should, for example, someone whose skills, talent, ability lend themselves more to being a mechanic have less educational promotion than someone doing a media studies course at Uni?
Not fact.
Education in this country is less and less about learning facts, because it is less and less a useful skill. Everyone has Google and calculators these days. Mental arithmetic and knowing the names of all the king's and queens of England are less relevant now.
A levels are passed through revising and memory. Nothing else.
To a point, I'd agree.
Back in the day, I did the first year of GCSE exams. We looked at old O level papers for Computer Studies for one thing - pretty low level concepts like logic gates, the questions were all binary in nature you were either right or wrong. Come the GCSE exam, the questions were all requiring essay type answers; using a scattergun approach you could pick marks up by mentioning things without necessarily displaying in-depth knowledge.
Not really, you seem to be thinking its a set of questions along the lines of "Who did this..."
Like you'd know
Hes got a masters degree in being a tw@tLike you'd know
Your lad sounds like he's pretty great. Cardiff will be missing out a fantastic student, no question about that.I know, he has worked voluntarily in a care home on Sundays for a year, joined St Johns Ambulance, spent an hour each Saturday night helping disabled kids swim and got a top 3% in the UKCAT score. Absolute disgrace, we're going to every away game as well until he goes away. I promised I'd come up and take him to all the "local" games to Sheffield in the season coming. Bloody joke, my mate wants to see our local MP about it, he was on the verge of tears about the injustice of it!
Give him a congrats from all of us here because he sounds like a future star.
Uni ain't about working and going, you can do extra curricular. Uni as well as moving to a big city got me doing me in terms of music, poetry and politics, including speaking in public at rallies in campus and meeting top politicians.
I'm guessing you're not an English Student.....
But with uni, you would have to write a personal statement and extra curricular activities are accounted for too
I've done a masters in psychology whilst working full time and well on the way to achieving my doctorate.
Cura te ipsum
Obviously some people disagree but I'm an advocate of life long learning and not just the lazy time off University approach. You find students coming out of University in younger life just do not have the interpersonal skills required. Again, they have memorised subject matter and regurgitated it in exams. In my company I employ people who, even in their 40's and 50's are still achieving high levels of qualifications, not even thinking of selfish,scrounging retirement. These are my best workers without a doubt. University graduates with good memories?? No thanks, vocational qualifications whilst working?? Yes please, every single time.
some interesting replys regarding university and like tomcat my daughter got rejected at swansea university and university of south wales for a type of nursing degree so she has decided on a different career path going down the apprenticeship route . makes you wonder when NHS in Wales is critically under staffed they turn down bright individuals . what the hell is going on in the recruitment area of the NHS ?? why don't they use the vocational / apprenticeship route like most other industries ? watcliff is partly right alot of young people would be better off choosing the vocational route to start there careers and in the future perhaps go to uni with solid experience behind them . come to think of it that's what i did !
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