highwaystar101 said:
I disagree with you there. If I had to state which universities would receive reduced funding first obviously the bottom 50% would be looking at cuts. But I do think that the lower 50% have credentials that speak for themselves. One of the smartest people I know is my best friend, he went to University of Birmingham, one of the best universities in the world, and got a good degree in English. Now he is doing his PGCE at Wolverhampton university, one of the worst in the country, but they are ranked as one of the best in the country for doing teaching degrees. Same story with me, I did my undergraduate degree at a mid level university, it didn't particularly perform well in most subjects. But I went to study at their faculty of technology and engineering, which is a national centre of excellence and fairly hard to get into. Now I'm doing an MPhil to PhD, I certainly wouldn't call my education a joke... It really is a shame the rest of my university was a complete shambles. What I'm trying to say is that the bad universities occasionally have their moments of pride. Genius can occur in the most unlikely of places.
Although I do think raising the tuition fees for the higher standard universities is a complete shambles of a policy. |
Maybe they should be turned back into polytechnics. Or at least a lot of the Media Studies degrees etc. The job they were doing before (vocational training) they did quite well, my dad did an engineering course as part of his RAF work at the what the University oF East Anglia used to be. cut from government funding.
Any universities should have to offer some of Maths, Science, Engineering, etc. My local university (Lincoln) doesn't offer any of those and is full of people who would be better off financially (and for the good of the country) in employment.
