Why so few ex-poly students on TSR?

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the whole point of education is to progress onto a career.

Maybe that's what you people see as the purpose of education. Last time I checked, the purpose of education was to become educated and well-endowed with knowledge and experience within your chosen field. Seems nowadays the true purpose of education is perverted for the sake of money and material possessions. Unfortunate, but predictable amongst the lower classes.

We only had one peice of groupwork, in cartography. Several where we did data collection together then went out seperate ways for reports.

Haha, good luck getting on at your workplace by yourself. You know you have to work in teams for projects at work, you won't achieve anything if everyone in your group is a pretencious dickhead who views everyone beneath them as sub human. Oh and there are plenty of people out there who will think themselves (and probably are) smarter than you.

the whole point of education is to progress onto a career.

I doubt doing a medicine degree will be of any use, if you do not get a job at the end.

Now you are joking! I like you, also value university prestige however unlike you I understand that not everyone wants to do a rigorous academic course.

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I'm well aware that there are those endowed with gifts I could never possess. I may be elitist, but I'm not deluded. I think you'll find that there are plenty of jobs where you can work independently and behind the scenes with little need for assistance from others. Insulting me by referring to a phallus is the epitome of immaturity and further cements my lowly opinion of you.

16? So did you not even take A Levels? Tsk, tsk. I thought such easy qualifications would be manageable for someone as self-absorbed in their own ego as you...

Large companies have a lot of prestige? Sorry, I'd rather belong to a prestigious academic institution than a money-making powerhouse. You obviously don't see the inherent value in education and care solely about jobs and money. Pity there aren't less shallow people in this world.

Maybe that's what you people see as the purpose of education. Last time I checked, the purpose of education was to become educated and well-endowed with knowledge and experience within your chosen field. Seems nowadays the true purpose of education is perverted for the sake of money and material possessions. Unfortunate, but predictable amongst the lower classes.

You're completely ignoring his point - that Staffordshire has a very high standard of education in his particular course. Is it as good as Oxbridge etc. overall? Of course not, but it's still a respectable provider of that course: he's getting a good education, because his university is highly regarded in that course. You're focusing too much on the reputation of the overall name, not of the department.

Very well, I apologise for generalising.

No, I had the choice to do A levels. I chose not to because I knew what I liked. I wasn't even in a "Just allowed" bracket. I was definitely eligible for our school's sixth form

(This is one of the best state schools in West Yorkshire btw)

Also, I've noticed that you can actually make a lot more money in the smaller companies



For me, ambition and learning do mean money. And ultimately, arent we all doing that? To better our job prospects?



Basically this. Thanks!



And again.Thanks

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If you care so much about academic elitism then you're better of staying in school.

Is a degree in History at Durham harder than a Biochemistry degree at Oxford Brookes? Who's supposedly "smarter" than the other? I really don't think there's a solid answer.

You're being disingenuous here. You must compare the same degree from different institutions. A History degree at Durham is far superior in content and rigour to the same degree at Oxford Brookes. You can tell this by a cursory glance at the syllabi.

When you are a dedicated student why would you respect those who just laze around?

It's called courtesy. Who are you to judge?

Besides, if these "wasters" arent deserving of your respect and attend "crappy" universities where they "have no hope", why are you so worried about their prospects. Who cares if they get firsts and 2:1s - their "lesser degree" won't be as valued as your prestigious RG uni.

Beginning to see the irony with your elitism now? You can't have it both ways.

You won't get very far in life with the attitude you possess.

It's quite silly to believe degrees at RG unis are inherently harder than degrees at ex-ploys. In the case of course rigor, it's very difficult to come to a solid conclusion. You'd have to be much more specific, preferably speaking from experience to have your comments respected. Is a degree in History at Durham harder than a Biochemistry degree at Oxford Brookes? Who's supposedly "smarter" than the other? I really don't think there's a solid answer.

Degrees from a RG may well be generally more rigorous than degrees from ex-ploys (which wouldn't be the fault of either student). But in the world of employment, this hardly matters. The rigor of a course is the decision of X university. An employer recruiting graduates understands that the best candidate for X job could be at any university. A basic requirement for a graduate scheme would be academic aptitude, so a 2.1 or above requirement is understandable (although some organisations place less emphasis on academics so they may accept 2.2s, Thirds, or no degree at all). Once a basic threshold has been placed, other more important requirements take precedence (which would include being easy to work with!).

Education and employment needs to be differentiated more. They certainly don't neatly correlate!! If you care so much about academic elitism then you're better of staying in school.

Why so few ex-poly students posting on TSR?

YES, I know this is going off topic but I know someone that achieved higher than 3A's at A level and went on to study at an ex poly that asked for 240 ucas points this completely baffles me

And what if moving to Liverpool isn't an option? It is kind of out of reach for most people, and not an affluent city.

If I had the choice of going to my university over say Oxford, Id pick my uni any day, considering that we're supposedly one of the best in Europe for our course, and we have amazing industry links