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Should all universities other than Oxbridge, LSE, and ICL be shut down?

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Original post by anonwinner
Like what?


For me particularly, I need a BSc in Diagnostic Radiography to become registered by the HCPC. Quite a few allied healthcare professions require degrees to become a practitioner. What would happen to Radiotherapists? Orthoptists? ODPs? Quite important jobs, mainly offered at regular universities.
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Original post by ETRC
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Original post by ubisoft
I know someone doing engineering at wolvo and he asked me for help with chain rule

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Original post by Maker
Where would you go if London met was shut down?


Manchester Met perhaps
Original post by Cato the Elder
Most universities are partly funded by government at this point. It would be interesting to see the government withdraw financial support from universities and allow them to sink or swim on their own. Then the failing universities will collapse and the elite universities will survive to create generations of capable, able human beings who will go on to become the leaders of the country.


Do you think it would be beneficial to this country if the vast majority of people became unable to go to university?
Original post by ubisoft
On a serious note, non-RG unis should be closed. Why are you going to uni if you got <BBB?


Do you know what the RG is? Like seriously?
Original post by anonwinner
Only the elite universities deserve to survive, should the rest be shut down?



guessing from the LSE inclusion you are either interested in economics or/and IB?
Original post by harinimnida
For me particularly, I need a BSc in Diagnostic Radiography to become registered by the HCPC. Quite a few allied healthcare professions require degrees to become a practitioner. What would happen to Radiotherapists? Orthoptists? ODPs? Quite important jobs, mainly offered at regular universities.


A couple of specialist unis could remain, I suppose
Original post by anonwinner
I heard that Wolverhampton's new BSc Applied Agricultural Studies degree has particularly high graduate prospects


That's kind of to be expected tbh. Graduates of that degree can have their cake and eat it with such a high level course. Agricultural Studies involves learning about quantum mechanics, string theory, number theory and a bit of cryptology with some economics on the side. Super geniuses enter this route (8 A*'s at A level).

Oxbridge have started trying to steal some of Wolverhampton's applicants.

@RonnieRJ - Wolverhampton's introducing a natural sciences degree which will be on par or above Oxbridge's. They're going to be studying Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics - But that's the easy part. Alongside those subject's they'll be learning applied shoelace tying and experimental how to breathe.
Original post by the greatest
guessing from the LSE inclusion you are either interested in economics or/and IB?


Well I included ICL so I thought I should include a non-Oxbridge uni that focused on the arts rather than the sciences
Original post by RayApparently
Do you think it would be beneficial to this country if the vast majority of people became unable to go to university?


Yes.

University is for smart people, not for dumb people. If you let a load of short people onto your basketball team, is that going to make them taller? No, your team will just get thrashed. In the same way, allowing the unwashed masses access to university will just make university worthless rather than increasing its worth. University is a means to an end, a tool for training superior men and training the mind, not for catering to the prejudices and neuroses of the average liberal student in his desire for "safe spaces", racial/gender quotas, iconoclasm and the like.
Original post by anonwinner
Well I included ICL so I thought I should include a non-Oxbridge uni that focused on the arts rather than the sciences



Meh most students from these universities will amass to nothing spectacular tbh, same with all universities imo.
Original post by anonwinner
Well I included ICL so I thought I should include a non-Oxbridge uni that focused on the arts rather than the sciences


Tbh OP, I'd say the unis that deserve to stick around should be:

Oxbridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL, Warwick, Durham, KCL, Bath, Birmingham, Nottingham.
Original post by the greatest
Meh most students from these universities will amass to nothing spectacular tbh, same with all universities imo.


Neither will the vast vast vast majority of the population. Going to one of these universities simply increases your chances of earning lots of money or achieving something great.
Original post by Cato the Elder
Yes.

University is for smart people, not for dumb people. If you let a load of short people onto your basketball team, is that going to make them taller? No, your team will just get thrashed. In the same way, allowing the unwashed masses access to university will just make university worthless rather than increasing its worth. University is a means to an end, a tool for training superior men and training the mind, not for catering to the prejudices and neuroses of the average liberal student in his desire for "safe spaces", racial/gender quotas, iconoclasm and the like.


That is a moronic analogy. But seeing as you're use of the phrase 'unwashed masses' suggests this is a joke and that you do in fact understand the social benefit of a educated workforce. The government doesn't intervene in this market for fun you know.
Original post by Cato the Elder
Yes.

University is for smart people, not for dumb people. If you let a load of short people onto your basketball team, is that going to make them taller? No, your team will just get thrashed. In the same way, allowing the unwashed masses access to university will just make university worthless rather than increasing its worth. University is a means to an end, a tool for training superior men and training the mind, not for catering to the prejudices and neuroses of the average liberal student in his desire for "safe spaces", racial/gender quotas, iconoclasm and the like.


Lol easy mate. This is TSR not the Mensa forum.
Original post by RayApparently
That is a moronic analogy. But seeing as you're use of the phrase 'unwashed masses' suggests this is a joke and that you do in fact understand the social benefit of a educated workforce. The government doesn't intervene in this market for fun you know.


How is it a moronic analogy?

And no, I'm not joking. University is not just for anybody. And you are implying that in order to have an effective workforce everyone must go to university, which is nonsense. There are apprenticeships and programs which give people practical skills that can be used in the workforce. A degree in Nordic Studies is not going to get you anywhere.
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Original post by RayApparently
That is a moronic analogy. But seeing as you're use of the phrase 'unwashed masses' suggests this is a joke and that you do in fact understand the social benefit of a educated workforce. The government doesn't intervene in this market for fun you know.


Yes. People with poor degrees don't get good jobs and are stuck with £30k debt. Over saturation of graduates is not good.
Original post by anonwinner
Neither will the vast vast vast majority of the population. Going to one of these universities simply increases your chances of earning lots of money or achieving something great.



Exactly, which is why a large chunk of it depends how your channelize your work into something positive which can as you said make money or achieve something great.

The university itself it only a factor and not a major one which shapes your life. What you do individually is the true key to achieving success in life regardless of university or even without university.
Original post by anonwinner
Honestly, if you can't get into Oxbridge then you don't really deserve a degree, in my opinion.


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