Who said anything about paper rounds? My neighbour, got made redundant, has a family of 4 to support, by the end of the week he had a 4 different job offers.
Buy a place at university for just 28K.
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Who said anything about paper rounds? My neighbour, got made redundant, has a family of 4 to support, by the end of the week he had a 4 different job offers.
bhaexpress
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Dullsville ! The only problem with a computer degree is that the technology you learn on tends to be out of date. You need to try and get some work experience (I've been in IT for over thirty eight years).
You're totally missing my point. Your neighbour has experience (given his family of four i'm assuming he's an adult).
You told a poster of school age that there is jobs out there. There aren't, not for us. More of my friends are unemployed not because they don't want to work but because they apply with 40 other people, 30 of which may have no experience but the 10 who do will make the final cut for interview.
bhaexpress
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As what though ? What jobs have you done in the last two years ? So you'd be quite happy to go to university and take any job when you finish ?
No, i'd go to university and get a degree that would actually give me a good chance of getting a job. Not some mcdegree that gets you no where in life just for the sake of going to uni.
bhaexpress
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Oh right, so despite the fact that you personally have no experience in getting a proper job and not some after school part time effort you think that it's that simple, dream on sunshine, your naivety will keep you going for now though.
bhaexpress
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What worries me is that HS wants to go into medicine, very worrying when he can't even spell the name of his village correctly. The NHS aren't that desperate surely ?
What's your top score on Missile Command then?
bhaexpress
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Hate to tell you but the only game I play is solitaire, I have zero interest in gaming, you see when I started in IT we didn't have games. I would bet that a BBC Micro had about as much processing power as the first mainframe I worked on. And you certainly couldn't download porn then (the celluloid clogged the card reader brushes) .
As much as I can't stand the Tories, the back benchers made it very clear to Willetts that his idea was dead in the water. He is however a very dangerous man to have in charge of HE.
Common as Mook
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Yeah, freeing up all those extra places for those who really need it - what a bunch of *****.
But my issue is the idea ever occurred to him... I just can't fathom it.
OK.
Explain to me how buying a University place for £28,000 will free up extra places for those who ''really need it''.
In short it doesn't. It frees up University places for those who can really afford it.
I genuinely don't know what the Austrian system is in terms of the proportion of late teens they are targetting.
Perhaps the UK should adopt the German system of apprenticeships for 18/19 year olds, but for that to occur you need a greater proportion of the economy based on manufacturing, and we all know that is not the case here in the UK, nor is likely to be the case given the low esteem in which engineers and designers are held in this country, coupled with poor industrial relations from a generation ago.
It doesn't, the proposal was that an employer or charity can effectively sponsor an additional place on a course, and the student picking up that additional place would have to pay extra money for it.
He will have been influenced by one of the right wing think tanks on the loony fringe of the Tories. What possesses him to do anything other than shred the idea when it arrived in his inbox is worrying.
I can assure you as someone who was made redundant at the beginning of this recession it is NOT easy to get a job !!!! I have a feeling you've never been in the situation of having a family and a mortgage and suddenly having no job.
I'm being made redundant at the moment. I'm thankful I don't have a family! But I do have a flat in North London to afford - not easy. What I do is massively over saturated which means every job I apply for I'm in amongst a field of 80/90 plus applicants. I've done pretty well so far and I think I can survive by freelancing for a bit but the job market isn't in a good place right now. Not by any shot.
It could be down to the fact the economy has grown by 0.0% in the last six months...
Superphil
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I've had a look around, and apart from someone saying Austrian universities are free, all the others I look at have tuition fees, and in many cases high ones. Munich business school for example is around e8,000 for the first year, then e10,000 for each of the next 2 years. The States are generally much dearer then here.
Is it at all possible that University education in the UK has been just too cheap for a long time now, and we are merely catching up with the rest of the world?
Is it at all possible that University education in the UK has been just too cheap for a long time now, and we are merely catching up with the rest of the world?