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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 16 2010, 05:38 PM (66 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Apr 16 2010, 05:38 PM Post #1 |
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On the news the other day I saw Brown give the it "big" about apparently having more people in university then ever.. Which seems like a massive achievement. So I myself was a student on Childcare, however Ive changed my mind and decided I wanted to do A level's in Law and Politics, so i got in touch with my local college, well i say local, its quite a big college in Nottingham to be told... The government have cut funding, 1/3 of all their courses have gone, so have labour really done well in education? another college I go to, to do my English has just had to merge with Derbyshire college because of spending cuts, which is just a disaster, alot of work lost etc because of merging systems. So I have a theory.. They cut spending on colleges 16-19, which would make someone an NEAT. (Not in education or training) NOT unemployed. They give more money to universities to get the unemployed into universities so it takes them off the number of unemployed. My theory is its all about numbers, Brown can stand their giving it big about how well they've done in education, but all they have done in my theory is take off one that doesnt count up numbers, and giving to the one that does. Better figures for them in the long run, meaning they can trick people and lie. Just a theory, but maybe.. |
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| getonwithit | Apr 17 2010, 09:01 AM Post #2 |
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The courses themselves are just GCSE/old O-level standard, so these days you could mug up in a library and be better informed. Too, I have seen instances of ppl looking for jobs being told that thier university qualification degree is not adequate and that they will need an MA on top- this after paying for thier own degree university course . Whether this is on purpose or Labour's ED Balls' bad planning I donlt know. Edited by getonwithit, Apr 17 2010, 09:08 AM.
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| Deleted User | Apr 17 2010, 10:24 AM Post #3 |
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This is because there are so many people doing degrees now, it has dumbed down the qualification. Especially the silly ones you get to hear in the newspapers. e.g. The David Beckham degree. |
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| Deleted User | Apr 17 2010, 01:13 PM Post #4 |
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Theres a David Beckham degree :S I just think theyre snubbing those under the age of 19 in colleges, as their stereotyped as NEATS and not so much "unemployed". So now the governments agenda is to just stick all those unemployed into universities, so it takes the number of "unemployed" down, making their figures look better on the paper. Universities can take more on at uni because of the cuts in colleges. Its A levels I am talking about, not GCSE's. Politics is no longer an A level barely anywere, and at some colleges around me 1/3 of all college courses has been stopped because of funding. It just all seems to much of a coincidence to me. I think the bragging of Brown of how more people were in uni then ever made me think about this. |
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