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‘We won’t be cash cows’: UK students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years
Fed up with paying for halls they cannot use, residents demand universities take action
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Dusty
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I basically paid for a MA degree in 2010 from an otherwise well respected UK university I shall not name. Very little work was required, it was a fancy new remote learning course... 1 year of occasional essays and £3k (I won a scholarship to reduce the cost).
An absolute farce, but it now sits on my CV and no one can tell it apart from a 'proper' MA.
I'm now in a lead role, and barely glance at the qualification section of the CVs. Job experience is all that matters.
For a junior role, I'd be willing to accept anyone straight out of their A levels if they seem to have an ounce of common sense about them, and train them on the job.
An absolute farce, but it now sits on my CV and no one can tell it apart from a 'proper' MA.
I'm now in a lead role, and barely glance at the qualification section of the CVs. Job experience is all that matters.
For a junior role, I'd be willing to accept anyone straight out of their A levels if they seem to have an ounce of common sense about them, and train them on the job.
luka
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Outcry over proposal for lower student loan repayment threshold
Move would save Treasury as much as £2bn a year but would hit lower earners hardest
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john eden
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My guess would be that this is to incentivise apprenticeships for future cohorts. Keep the unwashed out of the arts, that sort of thing. Aside from being a money grabbing exercise of course. Lots of student loans are never repaid iirc.Outcry over proposal for lower student loan repayment threshold
Move would save Treasury as much as £2bn a year but would hit lower earners hardest
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Yeah. There's this from a few months back too,
Funding cuts to go ahead for university arts courses in England despite opposition
Education secretary Gavin Williamson says money will be put towards Stem and medicine courses
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jenks
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My own experience is seeing more and more kids picking undergrad apprenticeships and accelerated degrees, take up for non stem degrees dramatically decreasing and at A level, fewer kids taking things like English I feel that there may come a time when to study Lit at A level will be as rare as studying Latin or Ancient Greek.
line b
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I was an english major and and its no exaggeration when I say 90% of my classmates had no interest in english what so ever. Its the default major for those who 'arent math people'
jenks
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I’m teaching people who want to do English degrees. It’s just a bit annoying to see them and their interests being dismissed.
luka
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No one is doing that. We're just saying a)it attracts a lot of people who have no interest in the subject and b) that is because it is so easy