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Published Date: 09 August 2008
ALMOST three-quarters of Scotland's students have to work to help fund their time at college or university, a survey revealed yesterday.
A total of 73 per cent of students north of the Border have one job or more – while the UK national average is 66 per cent.


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  • Last Updated: 08 August 2008 9:50 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Climate change is a fraud,

09/08/2008 17:38:34
I resent the idea of being made to pay extra taxes to fund Blair's 50% of young adults in HE. I obtained my degrees back in the early 1990s when they were free, but back then we didn't have silly degrees.

If students want to spend 4 years wasting their time and money on pointless media & curry making degrees, then they should do it at their own expense.

Let's face it, having 50% of all 18-30 year olds in HE requires significant dumbing down of the qualification. Having said that, not all degrees are equal. My engineering degree from a proper unversity in the early 1990s is worth a lot more than a 2008 'degree' in media from a red brick polyversity! It's like comparing 24 carat gold to dog poo.

I like the way that today's students insist that standards haven't dropped. One thing they fail to understand is that they weren't even born when I sat my high school exams.

Some say that old O-level questions are now used in today's A-level papers. How's that for maintaining standards?
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Suzi B,

09/08/2008 18:15:10
Who are you to decide what constitutes a 'silly' degree? You come across as someone who is an intellectual snob.
Are you suggesting that todays youth aren't as intelligent as they were 'back in the day'? I'm sure that people becoming Doctors, Architects, Lawyers, Dentists and Vets are still just as bright as they were back then. Cream always rises to the top. As many of the people you sneeringly refer to as having pointless degrees go out into the world and make a good living for themselves as do those with engineering degrees, by the way.
Many people used to(and still do)look down on engineering degrees as being second tier degrees so you aren't impressing anyone by saying that yours was a proper degree from a proper university.

 

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