Morning.
Re: alt - as I understand it, one of the problems is that schools 'shop around' for the easiest examining boards, to ensure they get the best results for the league tables - end result: everyone passes but few actually know that much. I mean FFS if you have an A* in A Level Maths you should surely be really, really fucking excellent at maths and we're being told people are getting that grade and still turning up at university without a clue.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:06, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

yup
if you make people's jobs depend on statistics, they will find ways of achieving them you hadn't thought of
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:09, Reply)

That's a bit ridiculous.
The annoying thing here is that a lot of students turn up to lectures and expect to be spoon fed everything, when it's really so different from highschool.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:10, Reply)

One of the benefits of university
is that it's a buffer between the cossetting of schooldays and the grim and desolate reality that is self-reliance in 'the real world'. It's a kind of halfway house in a sense.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:14, Reply)

This is true
Uni is only there to show you how to learn and fend for yourself
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:18, Reply)

Here the problem is that so many people who go to uni are also on benefits as well.
So they don't really learn anything about working at all until after uni.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

This wouldn't surprise me at all, tbh
However, a good part of it is as Poppet says above, so much of it is spoonfed to you. ICT at GCSE in particular is guilty of this, I didn't learn anything, as the teacher showed us how to do every single step of every exercise. Then again, he was a shit teacher*, so I'm not certain that's universal.

Spent more time having a laugh with the chavs in the class than he did actually teaching, this later extended to 'losing' work he'd already marked, and blaming us for not handing it in.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:15, Reply)