to dislike the word uni ?

[MaryAnnSingleton]

it really irritates me and I'm sure it's unreasonable, but it does.

My BIL did his degree at Coventry poly- giot s third at resit- spends his time commuting around the world as a troubleshooter and he and d-sis 9who is a nursery manager so chronically underpaid) apid off their mortgage in under 7 yeras and still amanged to go to Africa regualrly.... suspect he therefore did quite well out of the Poly system!

Most students who go rom our unii to do a PhD stay put and do it with the department, they have dropped my preferred MA though so i will be having to go elsewhere although I may do a MA in ASD first (can do it at home) as frankly i have enough on my palte to delay the commute for a few years.

It was unnecessary to turn the poly's into universities they had different aims. In a way it was the poly's snobbery that they weren't happy to stay as they were.

Now they are directly compared with the traditional universities and on the whole don't measure up in terms of the league tables. They shouldn't have to but they have brought this on themselves.

To a degree I agree, but I rather fear that money and funding was at the root of the issue.....

No idea, MB, did many polys really drop vocational courses when the switch to university status came in?

My alma mater stars in the early novels of VS Naipaul - it's where all his characters dream of getting a place. I guess coming from the Carribean made it harder to get into a university.

I was joking

yes I went to Leeds easywriter

Ours is seemingly in the process of droppinga cademic courses- psychology is in its alst years, and the professor who leads my dept expects his job to go sooner rather than later (they want to create a centre of excellence with lampeter apparently, which ahs the rep for RE courses). Archaeology went last year,a s did globalisation; they do however have new departments being built andmuch lauded for art, film and fashion.

tamum, go sit on the step and calm down.

you behavior is 'unasseptable'

Og god just marked a test for my sixth form and unless the little blighters pull their finger out they are not going to get to go to The univeristy of the Town Dump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Idle gits!

fizzbuzz - where did you go then and what did you study (I'm curious !)

Every bloody year I tell them that they have to work. Every farking year I tell them that if they don't revise they will fail.

And do they belive me?

Do they buggery!

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Haven't tutors been saying that since the beginning of time, MB? Mine certainly did at 6th form! Don't most of them end up doing OK in the end?

Oh no, I feel really bad now

miss, miss she got off the step .. she got off the step

Now if you two don't stop behaving then you are going to lose Golden Time....

I have literally slightly PMSL at Lunn University

is this a Paddington Bear hard stare I see before me?

I was offered a place at one uni(versity) and two former polytechnics. I ended up studying at a former poly which called itself a uni(versity) college half-way through my degree but is now claiming to be a university again. Incidentally it was also the third university set up in the country after Oxford/Cambridge but Henry VIII objected to the dons political viewpoints at the time so it was shut down. Maybe they said 'uni' instead of university .

oooops, I say Uni, as well....it's what people in germany say...because the University is such a long word...lol....