On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:42:01 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 16/08/2012 22:33, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:

F wrote:

On 16/08/2012 17:08 ARWadsworth wrote:
Just heard a lad on the local radio station saying that he got
one C
grade and two U grades in his A levels and now cannot go to Uni to
study
Media studies.

Am I the only one that thinks "Poor bugger, you would be going to
Uni if
it was not for that C grade"?
Am I the only one wondering why universities are wasting precious
resources in running Media Studies courses?

Because it's a cash cow with relatively little resources required,
unlike say, practical physics with its clever lecturers and labs, or
computer science with its clever people and labs.

AKA, people who can do sums.

You can manage computer science without doing sums (well not many
anyway) ;-)

If you pick the right bits (as I did!).

Unfortunately, we spend 25% of our first year teaching now doing
maths...which supports all the non-optional modules, anyway.



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