Universities mis-selling courses

[LornMowa]

Having read a post in Money Matters and knowledge of 2 other people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse since becoming a student, AIBU to think that Universities should be much more discerning about who is allowed to take courses.

I think that by enticing people whose earning prospects are unlikely to be enhanced by a degree to become students, some universities are as reprehensible as other leaches such as loan sharks.

To the poster on MM, I do hope that you can improve your prospects and resolve your current problems.

Thumbwitch, lol, I am doing medicine. :)
next week is 15 hours, plus a three hour exam, plus half hour contact session with tutor.
However, I am expected to do forty hours on top of whatever contact time i have.

LOL @ watching CSI and Cracker studies.

Your exH sounds just charming, Mists. He must have other assets

Just looked at the UCU report on which unis are threatened with closure and Lancaster is at Low risk.

A high number of well-thought-of institutions are at risk though, which is a bit shocking.

LOL at the Cracker analogy, apparently that programme lead to an increase in students for Forensic Psychology. I know some forensice psychologists, they are not employed in psychology :)

Im surprised. we had a report in the local paper that Lancaster, Edge Hill and Chester were at risk. I might have misread.

It makes no sense though. Im sure that was wrong.

Newman, Norwish, Lincoln and Edge Hill are the 'Very High Risk' ie they score 11-12 out of 12 on the Risk table.

The full table can be seen at www.ucu.org.uk with an analysis.

I can spell, honest that should say Norwich.

I'm applying for a masters in Cyberpsychology right now. Thats much more obscure useful than forensic psych, right?

Oh yes, you can analyse people over the interweb

Or create artificial brains for robots

Or summat. I'm sure it will be useful.

Actually it will possibly be very useful. It covers social networking, online marketing/advertising, gaming, artifical reality and computer mediated communication. And the college I will, I hope, be going to is the European leader in the field, so its well respected as well as cutting edge.

I didn't swallow the prospectus, honest

OK then...... I used to teach 'the internet' back in the day when it was new, and people were like 'Wow! There are pictures and everything!' Nowadays it is a tad more sophisticated and your average 13 year old knows more about it than I do!

My ex was an accomplished con-man gramercy. Only one of his children was begotten by me thankfully.

I hope Newman doesn't close. They might be very niche but they offer a lot of things which are difficult to find elsewhere (admittedly things like certificates to teach in RC schools).

I know Edgehill as well and am surprised, it is quite respected.

What is worrying is the claim that for evey £1 million that a university costs, it brings in £2 million in revenue to the local economy. So it's not just the loss of x thousand jobs if a uni closes, it is the wider economy too.

It's all getting a bit shakey and the thing is, like the NHS, once the infrastructure is gone, it's gone, it will cost too much to put everything back in place.

I know everyone stopped talking about this a while ago, but my DP is a student and, gosh, some of the people he brings home.

One in particular is a friend from the same university, doing a drama degree. I do not wish to sound mean, but she is as thick as pigsh*t, can barely string a sentence together. She didn't realise she had to pay tuition fees until her second year, by which time she had already accrued a large chunk of debt which could not be paid by student loans as it was her own stupid fault for not applying for a loan to cover it. She can barely read or write, cannot cook a meal or get a bus without help. She's the kind of person you expect to have some kind of "learning difficulty" but she, in fact, does not.

But she is struggling through her course, having to write THREE (count them three!) entire essays a year, some of them with more than 2,000 words each.

She will probably scrape by with a 2:2, and then she will be qualified to be my boss at the local council where I work doing something boring (to you, vital and interesting to me) about the legislation of street vendors, fundraisers and buskers; a field in which I have five years of on-the-street experience in.

Ho hum.