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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 2, 2011 15:08:42 GMT 1
A good move by GSK Glaxo-Smith-Kline, that has announced it will pay University fees of up to £9000 pa for students entering its training scheme
More industries should soon be doing the same, for it is self-evident that GSK will mop up the very best brains
I doubt very much if GSK will ignore the quality of A Levels or the baccalaureate in assessing its recruits for training. They may indeed have their own assessment examinations, but bet your life they will not bother with assessing whether the potential recruit comes from a deprived background in allocating places on their training courses. Such meddling is strictly for well-meaning (but hopelessly adrift) bleeding-heart liberals such as Clagg (and indeed Gove, under pressure from the wet coalition) attempting to rectify the destructiveness of the British educational system
Interesting statistics
20% of British undergraduates have only 2 'E's' at A level
'Universities' such as some South London institutions have an undergraduate failure rate of around 40%
Shouldn't the chancellors of such 'universities' be treated as confidence tricksters and receive commensurate prison sentences?
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Post by abacus9900 on Mar 2, 2011 15:17:08 GMT 1
nay, perhaps there's to many teachers of the calibre of STA!
But seriously, I wonder if one of the reasons people are failing so badly at education is that it's not seen as being that 'cool' any more.
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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 2, 2011 15:18:45 GMT 1
nay, perhaps there's to many teachers of the calibre of STA! Hahahaha! ;D Good one!
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Post by jonjel on Mar 2, 2011 16:26:21 GMT 1
Major industries have funded students for a very long time. My own daughter was funded for her second degree that way, so it is not a new thing. maybe GSK wanted a bit of publicity.
I heard a figure that if a company such as ICI or a leading pharmaceutical company funded 100 students, if only one of those came up with a new good product they had more than payed for the whole lot of them.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 2, 2011 18:01:33 GMT 1
The Armed Forces also fund degrees. I think it is an excellent idea. You can bet they won't be in Meeja Studies, Earth "Sciences" or Sociology!
Still, I bet the BBC will continue funding those, and Wimmins Studies, of course.
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Post by louise on Mar 2, 2011 18:03:23 GMT 1
The Armed Forces also fund degrees. I think it is an excellent idea. You can bet they won't be in Meeja Studies, Earth "Sciences" or Sociology! I thought I'd read somewhere that you studied sociology marchesarosa?
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 2, 2011 18:44:43 GMT 1
I surely did, Louise! It was a revelation but whether it should have been state funded I doubt!
And I've fallen out with my Alma Mater too, since they have become home to the climate alarmist awashwithloadsadosh privately funded Grantham Institute, since they have accepted money from Gaddaffi, since they granted one of his awful sons a joke PhD on a fraudulent and plagiarised work written by someone else, and since Anthony Giddens, former Director, wrote puff pieces about Libya, presumably as Tony BLiar's behest..
How are the mighty fallen.
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