tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post8249451470097577957..comments2023-08-19T12:58:15.583+01:00Comments on Wise Herb's Random Jottings: Student Finances and FeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5971346703488173493.post-18776262695387877882010-11-12T21:47:12.688+00:002010-11-12T21:47:12.688+00:00I'm with you there.
A friend of mine worked tw...I'm with you there.<br />A friend of mine worked two jobs and studied for an O.U. degree, and I've seen how dedicated and tenacious you have to be to do it. She now has a doctorate and is involved in oceanographic research.<br /><br />I think too many people aspire to a university education whilst having no idea why or what they really want to do with their lives. It's just the thing to do after school.<br /><br />There are hard degrees, with hard facts, a lot of real work, and there are woolly degrees, where everything's a matter of opinion, and nobody knows who's right or wrong.<br />A friend's son is studying structural engineering. His mates have time for booze and parties and computer games. Joe has not. He needs to absorb so much, produce real, verifiable work.<br />But at the end, he'll have real skills recognisable anywhere in the world. Whereas they'll be trying to get a job in "the media".<br /><br />I'd like to see a gap year or years being compulsory. No, not a gap of backpacking and getting stoned in Goa, but a gap of getting a job, moving out from mummy and daddy's house, learning to do your own washing etc.<br />Then deciding on a degree course, with reasoned argument, not "Well, there's a really great nightlife and good bands and it's a cool place to live"soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.com