A-Level results day

[tnx]

I did quite well. Got mainly A's apart from in English literature. Can't remember if I got two B's or not two B's.

 

[explicit4u]

Free 1/4 chicken at Nando’s if you’re picking up results today

 

[FortuitousFluke]

I got two D grades and a C... Probably equivalent to an A and two Bs in today's money.

I don't know, I'd give most of your content on here an E- at best.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

The Royal Marines one is similar, but you have to sit it dressed as a St. Trinian's schoolgirl.

 

[Supernova]

its all about making money - quality of education doesn't matter, its about the numbers.

Sums up the entire education system. All institutions are metric and testing obsessed. It's a huge problem. Students and teachers are burned out

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I was watching the news this morning and it was quite interesting to see that unconditional offers have increased 20x in the last 15 or so years. I don't think anybody in my sixth form received an unconditional when we were applying, I do wonder what the rationale behind it is.

I got an unconditional offer for a PhD scholarship this summer, so yeah, it sucks.

As for rationale for unconditional offers, it just business. They need bums on seats otherwise they lose money.

 

[rubberduck]

Tests written in crayon don't count.

Neither does coursework you can only manage to complete by posting on OCUK for the answers....

 

[Diddums]

Neither does coursework you can only manage to complete by posting on OCUK for the answers....

It does actually. Not that you'd know, given your lack of education

 

[randomshenans]

3x the cost of tuition, ravaged funding, less and less people going?

Quite obvious they want to reduce as many hurdles as possible. The standard of education certainly hasn't been getting higher.

*fewer

 

[D3K]

*fewer

Less people care about that grammatical error than you think.

 

[LeeUK]

Back in my time you had to go through clearing and get what was left over. Now it seems you can get whatever you want and whatever uni you want.

 

[FortuitousFluke]

Back in my time you had to go through clearing and get what was left over. Now it seems you can get whatever you want and whatever uni you want.

As long as you're willing to pay for it. I had a look at business admin masters degrees today. I nearly had a bloody heart attack.

 

[randomshenans]

Less people care about that grammatical error than you think.

Ironic in a thread about education though, innit?

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

Free 1/4 chicken at Nando’s if you’re picking up results today

As punishment for bad results?

 

[D3K]

Ironic in a thread about education though, innit?

You could say that, I but I assume it bothers you. 'You was..' brought/bought are my triggers. Each to their own.

 

[RaohNS]

But as someone else said, its a business. The more who go to Uni, the more money the Government makes, so they need to reduce the barrier for entry to achieve that. They don't really care about the students education, only about the money they can make while they are in it.

The few who will excel in life will do so with or without uni.

Agreed. I don't go as far as my sister who believes Uni is only for an Academic elite, but do believe education and progression needs a standard to provide a benchmark for both aspiration and the enlightenment of society as a whole.

 

[Nitefly]

Wow so nobody here got results? Surely a first for this forum and a sign of the times....

 

[flibbage0]

As someone that applied to university during the busiest ever year on record, this is very frustrating.

I'm seeing people being accepted onto the same degree as I did, 5 years later at a much better university with C's whereas I struggled to get in with B's.

There is even clearing places for medicine, which is absolutely unheard of if you go back 5 years

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I got two D grades and a C... Probably equivalent to an A and two Bs in today's money.

No, still two Ds and a C.

 

[Malevolence]

We didn't have all this A* rubbish when I sat my A-Levels.