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rant about kings' reputation

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Reply 80
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tktaylor6
ok my mistake there is infact only ONE good university in the country and that is oxford, and yea i mashed up my GCSE's but did well on my a levels and my STEPS....wait didnt einstein fail school?! you pointed that out too...hmmm
Waterfront bar, King's College
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Reply 81
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Chiefect
the point is, you are an arse.. oh no wait the point is, kings has a naff rep
tktaylor6
ok my mistake there is infact only ONE good university in the country and that is oxford, and yea i mashed up my GCSE's but did well on my a levels and my STEPS....wait didnt einstein fail school?! you pointed that out too...hmmm


From "If you didn't get all A's, then I won't read your posts" to "Well, Einstein failed, so it's alright that I did!"

Hilarious.
LivinItLarge!
Graduate prospects for students at Oxford: 77.5%

Source: The Time Good University Guide

Therefore 22.5% students fail to gain a graduate job after graduating from the university of Oxford so there you go! proven

Presumably (correct me if I'm wrong) that 22.5% includes students who go on to do postgraduate work etc, which Oxford students are arguably more likely to choose than students of some other universities. The employment rate amongst Oxford graduates who _wanted_ a job immediately after graduating is probably quite a bit higher. One might also want to consider the pay scale of those 77.5% of Oxford graduates taking jobs right away compared to the pay scales of graduates of other universities. The value of a university entirely depends on what you're looking for, and judging them exclusively on immediate graduate employment prospects is as bad as judging people's opinions on whether they got all A's at A-level.
Reply 84
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tktaylor6
no no, if you didnt do well in your A LEVELS i wont listen, if you didnt do well in GCSE's i dont care, if you cant speak french that doesnt show your stupid that shows you dont care about french..maybe you bunked like me:biggrin:
Reply 85
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Chiefect
beeblebrox87
Presumably (correct me if I'm wrong) that 22.5% includes students who go on to do postgraduate work etc, which Oxford students are arguably more likely to choose than students of some other universities. The employment rate amongst Oxford graduates who _wanted_ a job immediately after graduating is probably quite a bit higher. One might also want to consider the pay scale of those 77.5% of Oxford graduates taking jobs right away compared to the pay scales of graduates of other universities. The value of a university entirely depends on what you're looking for, and judging them exclusively on immediate graduate employment prospects is as bad as judging people's opinions on whether they got all A's at A-level.



and with that

Arguament OVER
Reply 86
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gangrene
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ok guys can we PLEASE start analyzing why kings reputation has deteriorated in these past 10/15 years?
Reply 87
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roff
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Also LivinItLarge, those tables are flawed if we are not told what their criteria is.
tktaylor6
wait wait, what A levels did you do in your gap year? and what was your offer from cambridge and for what course and what college?


My offer wasn't based on my other A Levels so they're irrelevant really. Admittedly my situation was slightly different than others studying for a BTEC National - The National usually comprises 18 units - I ended up doing 24 out of choice as I wanted to extend my Computing knowledge/skills. The only point I was making was that Cambridge (and possibly Oxford - I'm not sure) does accept the BTEC National Diploma qualification.
Actually, Einstein did quite well in secondary school, it was just his primary teachers who didn't thing much of him.
beeblebrox87
Presumably (correct me if I'm wrong) that 22.5% includes students who go on to do postgraduate work etc, which Oxford students are arguably more likely to choose than students of some other universities. The employment rate amongst Oxford graduates who _wanted_ a job immediately after graduating is probably quite a bit higher. One might also want to consider the pay scale of those 77.5% of Oxford graduates taking jobs right away compared to the pay scales of graduates of other universities. The value of a university entirely depends on what you're looking for, and judging them exclusively on immediate graduate employment prospects is as bad as judging people's opinions on whether they got all A's at A-level.


The graduate employment rate includes students that go on to further education, I believe
Reply 91
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tktaylor6
yea im going now all i really need to say is...it doesnt matter either way to me what you think things are like, after all you do go to kings HAHAHAHAHA
Reply 92
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Kings is pretty 'crap' for maths....that is the impression i certainly got. Their typical offer to further mathematicians is ABC and their offer to me was only a BC, and to include further maths. Also, many people said that the students/lecturers only asked the students who were there in november to consider kings as insurance, and if the uni is saying that, surely there has got to be a definite lack of morale, and does one really want to study in a department lacking enthusiasm? It would most likely have an adverse affect on the students as a result too...i'm with Tk on this one :rolleyes:

pk
Reply 93
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Chiefect
dont let yourself be brought down by a degenerate
beeblebrox87
Actually, Einstein did quite well in secondary school, it was just his primary teachers who didn't thing much of him.


Did I mention which school he did badly in? No! so why make that comment. And I've said a million times over I used it to help prove a more than justified comment, so please don't mock
Reply 95
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tktaylor6
yea im going now all i really need to say is...it doesnt matter either way to me what you think things are like, after all you do go to kings HAHAHAHAHA


:cool: right on! oen from kings would be so biased on the topic of their own uni, lol...duh! Aint rocket science:biggrin:
Reply 96
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tktaylor6
i doubt anybody at kings would end up in rocket science
Reply 97
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roff
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Kings isn't better than Imperial, UCL and LSE though is it? :confused:
ramroff
Kings isn't better than Imperial, UCL and LSE though is it? :confused:


It depends how you define "better". In some subjects it probably is, in other subjects probably not.

It does have a higher graduate employment rate than all of them, though.
Reply 99
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ramroff
Kings isn't better than Imperial, UCL and LSE though is it? :confused:


Surely 'better' is subjective though? It depends on your own criteria.

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