University degrees.

[Medway Blue]

University is for lazy work shy posh kids who are too scared to enter the world of work and want to skive off, smoke pot and shag around for 3 years.

Unless you go to the University of Life, where famous alumni include chadded, Rusty Shackleford, A Century United, Lord Ashdown, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Lee Bradbury and Prince William.

Not true if you have to go to university on order to do the job that you want to do! Not true if you have a job whilst you're at university either.

 

[M@CC@ 16]

University is for lazy work shy posh kids who are too scared to enter the world of work and want to skive off, smoke pot and shag around for 3 years.

Unless you go to the University of Life, where famous alumni include chadded, Rusty Shackleford, A Century United, Lord Ashdown, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Lee Bradbury and Prince William.

i'm not posh :)

 

[Perth Bambi]

Not true if you have to go to university on order to do the job that you want to do! Not true if you have a job whilst you're at university either.

Ignore him mate, he is fishing.

 

[blues_r_best]

Ignore him mate, he is fishing.

And punching

 

[Desert Shrimper]

yeah i spell like this in my essays, how naive of me.

as you say in some employers day, we were a poly, however i as i said we are growing uni with an even faster growing reputation and it would take a simple bit of research/1 minute conversation to explain to an employer how we were a poly until i was 3 and here in portsmouth they are very proud of the transition they have made.

ohh, and for the record rusty, my a level results were just fine cheers :clap: and i got 5 unconditional offers to all the uni's i applied for, and funnily enough choose portsmouth, cause its the dogs.

You cannot polish a t u r d - re-naming a poly as a "modern university" makes no odds, at the end of the day, it's still a polytechnic. Why can't society just accept it for what it is? Why hide behind "modern university"??

Also, for the record, Portsmouth is not held in high esteem as a polytechnic (I mean "Modern University.") The cold hard fact is that companies which employ graduates would view it as the choice of someone who didn't do so well in their A-Levels and spent too much time chilling on their batty/bunking off to watch (or star in) Jeremy Kyle. This and the fact that Portsmouth is a pikey town full of chavs and ****ed up sailors leads me to suggest you are on the wind up in your original post, in which case - good fishing!!

 

[NZamba Legend]

If he were still alive Pierre Bourdieu would have a 'field' day with this thread.
Homo Academicus indeed

 

[BalmainShrimper]

This is a great thread - sorry I missed it earlier.

Good luck to all those doing degrees. It's certainly got a lot more difficult since my day - I even got a grant!

However my two penneth based on a bit of life experience, and for a while I coordinated grad recruitment and university outreach programmes for a company I worked for, so I know a bit about this sort of thing.

1. Do a subject you're passionate about. Don't do something you think will get you a "good job". You're far more likely to be successful doing a subject you enjoy.

2. Unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer or scientist it really doesn't matter what degree you do. Being numerate and literate is very important - hence testing these is commonplace.

3. Getting a 2.1 is often used as a filter, although I always felt A level results were a better barometer of someone's ability as they are fairly standard, objective tests

4. If you get a 2.2 and the job says 2.1, write a good covering letter, demonstrate you're skills/experience and relevancy to the job and what you have done in addition to your studies to make you a well rounded and attractive employee

5. After you've started work, no-one gives a stuff what you did or where you did it.

Overall, the most important qualities an employer is looking for are bright, enthusiastic, hard working, team-player who can be trusted. A degree is merely a stepping stone and a competence check. For me, what has helped me more in my career are the things I did at uni outside of the studying which taught me much more about planning, leadership, motivation etc than anything I learned in the classroom.