The statement, on the face value, looks to make Dick out of Mr Dix. Despite being a bad news to many of us (me included), I have to confess that I secretly welcomed this change, as my personal experience with many of these so called "students" and there agents have been less than flattering. Most of these courses are utterly meaningless - with no clear demarcation of where it stars and then leading to nowhere when it all ends. I mean, what do they do after completing these "academic" courses? Time to time, I take out some time, over a cold beer or two - better still with a glass of brandy next to me, to go into the meditative contemplation of the world question Number One in my universe: What’s this guy going to do afterwards? Beats me, and alcohol doesn’t help either.
It is a shame that these students are ones that stoke the fires that cast bogus "colleges”, with no academic staff, no proper library facilities, no anything to be honest. And the students don’t know they have been duped – there are no jobs out there, you are not going to make the money you spent on the course and your agent Mr G. W. Shark, that diploma is better used to seal draft on wintry days than at job interviews….. the list, and its logical conclusions are utterly bewildering now I need another fag to get my sanity back again.
British Universities have been going down the hill since late 80's, since they turned all polytechnics into universities - none of these new universities have excelled in academic record, and the red brick universities have followed suite. They have axed real departments such as classics, maths, physics, and chemistry. In their place new departments have sprung out: Those which teach Aromatherapy, Women's studies, Media studies, and of course silly business study programmes. How these people (graduates) will chip into the future society and its problems, I do not know. All I know is they have got utterly meaningless degrees and being passed with 1st classes through silly assessment systems.
And now on the top of that we have these silly colleges with Business English, Accounting English?, and whatnot other courses. To hell with them all, and i have no sympathy for them when axe falls on them. What we need for future are bright academics, not people who wasted their youth in McDonald's crew (followed by) and pointless lectures two days per week, by untrained staff without credentials, leading to a staged "assessment" and then finding themselves with the possession of a meaningless piece of paper which is called "An Academic Diploma" (not my words).
That was a bit fiery bit above I guess, but truth needs to be told, even in anonymity..... Then again, as usual in the Big Blighty, they have taken regulations to the extreme. More you look at them, more absurd it all looks as these regulations do not address any of the issues that we need to face, that is making funds available to the universities, improving academic quality, finding jobs for graduates, cutting top up fees, increasing the grant, making universities more approachable to all, etc. Well, knowing the bunch involved in this whole fiasco, I did not expect them to come up with anything of value anyways. I knew they'd make a mess before they even started on it, and verily I say unto you, they have.
Yet, then again, there is always the light at the end of the tunnel.
And it turned out to be a glow-worm.
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