On 16/08/2012 23:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 16/08/2012 18:53, 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?

Not only that, when there was political coercion to have large swathes
of the population benefit from a "university education", you had to
have courses for all the people not sufficiently academic to qualify
for traditional subjects.


Pharmacology and needlework?

One of our lads read pharmacology at Plymouth, we used to joke that he
was the only one of the youngsters we knew who went to university to
study drugs rather than to take them