We should shut down the lower ranked universities and bull courses - debate

Not gaining a degree in today's society can really limit you, in finance. It's going to be hard without a degree to gain 30k+ a year, by no means does a degree entitle you to 30k+ a year, but it can and most probably will help.

Food Studies at University of Central Lancashire.

What you're forgetting is than some unis that are low ranked overall, might have one department that is one of the best in the country. So within the industry, people graduating from such uni are respected by employers. Unis add loads to the economy anyway. What does it matter if people do mickey mouse degrees, there's not enough jobs for everyone, so it gives them something to do. Plus think of all the money spent by students, especially international students, that wouldn't be spent if such unis/courses weren't ran. Employers can see which applicants were on a worthwhile course.

Your attempt to troll, though I wouldn't doubt that.

Would like to say my mum had to do a degree in order to be promoted to a higher position in her job, so she went to the nearest university that does the subject, which was Salford, which isn't the best university, but she needed to go their, and was guaranteed a raise in her pay etc, so yeah

Your attempt to troll, though I wouldn't doubt that.

Would like to say my mum had to do a degree in order to be promoted to a higher position in her job, so she went to the nearest university that does the subject, which was Salford, which isn't the best university, but she needed to go their, and was guaranteed a raise in her pay etc, so yeah

Which is why the lower ranked unis and bull courses should be scrapped as it is becoming a like minimum entry requirement when it shouldn't. I don't believe 30k salaries should be so much less probable to those without a degree.

EDIT: I would go to a lesser ranked uni if I had no choice because of this sate of affairs, but I am saying they still should be scrapped.

Oh by the way, they teach media at Oxford. It isn't just the 'poorer' universities that teach what I presume you would perceive as useless courses.

Working full-time in a minimum wage job? no thanks. How do you know that after my degree I don't want to peruse a masters? providing I get the grades etc, I could go to a "top uni" to do my masters.

how much was the pay increase?

No.

So then the only people who will get into university will be the internationals because of the tuition fee's on them, and people with A*A*A*-AAA. Which is hysterical, especially if someone gained an A* in their chosen university subject, but only got, say BB in the other two.

So university is your shelter from the harsh realities of the world.

People studying their butts off at school and sixthform to go onto hard or useful-to-the-world courses such as medicine, dentistry, oxbridge degrees (hard, perhaps some bull subjects like classics tho), UCL, Imperial, engineering, law (unless at crappy unis like Uni of East London), english at Edinburgh etc AND those studying vocational courses at college like Plumbing, Engineering AND those going into employment are suffering for people who go to study at crappy universities such as Chichester, York St Johns, Bournemouth, Reading etc, who go to uni for the sake of it when they would probably be better off doing a vocational course at college or working.

Both get funding from the state, yet if the latter group where scrapped then the money saved could help those going on to study useful and respected stuff.

Discuss

Pretty sure my flatmate doing English at Edinburgh doesn't think it's useful to the world.

Yes.

It is hysterical, but at least it doesn't just prolong the hysteria and crap - such as jobs requiring a degree for promotion when it probably adds little (it may be an area where it does add a significant thing, but for a lot of jobs it doesn't)

Working full-time will not get me any further to my dream job than a university degree.

Mate my brother went to a so called crap uni and now he's the director of operations at a newspaper in Tokyo..Yeah his life really screwed up