Shut down unis outside the top 40, and BBB should be the minimum

A private acting and drama teacher that required a drama degree for the post... and yes first year out of uni! Point is, i couldnt have got that job without going to uni

Everyone asks for degrees nowadays that they are worth nothing especially in Mickey Mouse subjects like drama

if you shut down the unis outside of the top 40 then where are people from bangladesh, india, sri lanka, pakistan, poland, bulgaria and romania going to apply to? Many of the students from these countries want to come to the UK and join their families who are already in UK and eventually get citizenship. So they apply to a foundation course at the unis outside of the top 40, get the student visa, attend school for a few months or so and then disappear.

If the UK had a strong prime minister or a strong Home Secretary then they would have clamp down on these nonsense. But UK doesn't have credible people in the top positions in government. So the show must go on.

A private acting and drama teacher that required a drama degree for the post... and yes first year out of uni! Point is, i couldnt have got that job without going to uni

Hi

When I left school in 1984 it was roughly 1 in 7 that went to university. I would say that in general that person was VERY academically driven. Less university options were available and in the main the subjects were choices that delivered significant commercial advantage.

Last year, I believe the ratio was 1 in 3 with a massive number of options with a high percentage of subjects that delivered zero commercial advantage imo.

I can see where the OP is coming from, not sure about the execution of the plan but it’s clear to me that something needs to be done. Unfortunately, a degree as a currency has imo been devalued due to so many being given out to students of very low academic ability, this needs to change in order to make degrees more valuable imo

LSD

The 'nonsense' is deliberate. Britain has a ZOG.

The final exam for the first year probability course at Manchester, January 2013: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/media/eps/schoolofmathematics/study/undergraduate/informationforcurrentstudents/pastexampapers/MATH10141.pdf

The final exam for the first year probability course at Cambridge, June 2013: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.maths.cam.ac.uk/files/pre2014/undergrad/pastpapers/2013/ia/PaperIA_2.pdf

Decide for yourself...

Again, you can't be serious.. The same patterns would hold for pretty much every module between the two. Not to mention the whole "alpha" based marking system that Cambridge Maths has.

There are some things J-SP, that you can't deny.. These are one of those things.

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As someone who studied physics at a top 10 uni and dropped out to do a vocational course, I couldn't agree more. University degrees are completely devalued and in my opinion not worth the time or money. I know people that finished with DD As level and had an unconditional offer before finishing with even worse A2 grades. What is the point in lying to yourself and enrolling on a degree which originally was reserved for academics

The comparison is genuinely woeful though.

The Mathematics Tripos are 9 different courses split into 4 papers. You picked one covering differential equations and probability. There are more lecture hours dedicated to both units and the exam is 1 hour longer. Vastly changing the content they can cram into the exam.

Manchester is 12 different courses with 1 (or more) papers each per course. Of course it'll be dispersed.

You can pick 2 unis of similar prestige and compare exams of the same units too. Some start slow in 1 year dedicating more focus to other units. Then completely overload you with information in the next 2-3. Some will be consistent. But first year will be especially different across unis. E.G I'm doing the same degree as a friend at a different RG Uni. We have covered Hydraulics in depth and had a (brutal) exam on it. They cover it too but missed out a ridiculous amount of important concepts. At the end of the day this still needs to be taught to them so you can expect them to be doing it in 2nd/3rd years. We have it again and hopefully will be taught at regular speeds.

The best way to make the argument you've attempted is to compare the syllabus on final year units between unis. You'll find that if the degree is accredited, it's always pretty much the same

You talk of UCL as if it’s Oxbridge. It literally has such a high offer rate for most courses. Pipe down.

You're a prospective Bristol applicant love. Focus on getting into Bristol first before coming at UCL.

Ngl, I have to agree with this.

You're a prospective Bristol applicant love. Focus on getting into Bristol (which has spaces in clearing) before coming at UCL (which doesn't).

Ngl, I have to agree with this.

Right? It's like being Musa and saying Mbappe isn't that great lmao

I’m not prospective. I already applied last year and received my offer which I firmed. Perhaps you should work on your deductive skills.

Considering I applied for Medicine and achieved 3 A*s and 1 A. I could almost certainly get into any course at UCL. I applied to Bristol because I preferred the course and the city not because I wasn’t capable as I far exceed any gcse or a level requirement that your uni offers.