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Post by housesparrow on Aug 24, 2011 6:42:44 GMT
A survey of university students has revealed that cost and fun are the main factors students consider when going into higher education. Surely one can still have a job and party all night? I'm sure I did!
Words such as "expensive", "fees" and "cost" dominate in the words UK residents most associate with universities, research suggests. "Expensive" had most mentions (775), followed by "fees" (171). But more than half those asked why people went to university said "fun". |
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Post by Weyland on Aug 24, 2011 7:39:17 GMT
A survey of university students has revealed that cost and fun are the main factors students consider when going into higher education. Surely one can still have a job and party all night? I'm sure I did! When I was studying I already had a job. The company sent me to college for half the year and paid me to go. That's what engineering companies did in those primitive days when we had engineering companies. Plenty of partying still. We were better off and more worldly than the students who were just students (though they had much longer holidays, of course). Nowadays, as I heard on R4 just the other day, most graduate engineers in Britain can't find engineering jobs, so they tend to go into financial "services", which is a bit like Albert Einstein teaching flower pressing. Just another blessing of that Sacred Cow, Market Forces. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 25, 2011 7:46:35 GMT
All teenagers should go to university, and all unversities should be in sealed off towns or on remote islands with lots of 'fun' to be had, but no noise or bother for the grown-ups.
I hate teenagers. They're useless in the workplace, commit all the crime out of it, and I regard University as just somewhere to park them for a few years until they grow up.
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