I don't want to put down all bath student, because I know there are one that work damn hard.
But I also feel that due to the university getting funding based on bums on seats, they have to cater to the lowest common denominator. This was very obvious in my degree, when very basic subjects went straight over the heads over several people. It wasn't their fault, they just shouldn't have been doing the degree. I learned very little in my first and second year, it was largely stuff I covered at A level.
Its not just the creationists that make me feel that the calibre of students is deminsihing, its just that this is qualifiable evidence. I've seen students work their socks off, and I've seen others who sit there "I can't be bothered to revise / study / do coursework I'll do it later." Yet both are likely to come out with a degree from a top rated university. I don't think employers look much at the classification of the degree (oxbridge don't even give a classification). I blame tuition fees for a large chunk of this. However, that's a rant for a different day.
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Re: bath students?
Date: 2005-11-28 02:29 pm (UTC)But I also feel that due to the university getting funding based on bums on seats, they have to cater to the lowest common denominator. This was very obvious in my degree, when very basic subjects went straight over the heads over several people. It wasn't their fault, they just shouldn't have been doing the degree. I learned very little in my first and second year, it was largely stuff I covered at A level.
Its not just the creationists that make me feel that the calibre of students is deminsihing, its just that this is qualifiable evidence. I've seen students work their socks off, and I've seen others who sit there "I can't be bothered to revise / study / do coursework I'll do it later." Yet both are likely to come out with a degree from a top rated university. I don't think employers look much at the classification of the degree (oxbridge don't even give a classification). I blame tuition fees for a large chunk of this. However, that's a rant for a different day.