university of bolton

CAPSLOCK · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:18 pm

Heard an advert on the wireless about 3 hours ago and I've just finished wringing out my undies

Funniest thing since Laurel n Hardy

£6.5k a year for a degree course at an 'excellent' university

By what fcuking criteria is our local home for backward girls and boys 'excellent'

davroduk · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:55 pm

If you are from another country then the good old British Government, will pay the fees for you to come over here and take the p1££ and get your degree in what ever you want.
Plenty of places available cos we have dumded down our own education system to accomodate the retards in our society, so that they dont feel inadequate.
We have gone from the brightest pupils going on to the highest education, to draging everyone down to the same level as the most under achieving pupil so as not to hurt their feelings.
We need to reward the brightest pupils and assist the not so bright.
When I went to school, if someone got 3 Alevels they were considered to be very acadenic.
Now 3 A levels would be considered a fail, because everyone who takes A levels gets 6 to 8 passes every year. (and increases year by year).
We need children to become focused on something that they need to achieve at the end of their school years,
School today is all learning aids (calculators etc)
Take away their phones, calculators, Ipads etc and todays pupils would be completly lost.

William the White · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:44 pm

CAPSLOCK wrote:

Heard an advert on the wireless about 3 hours ago and I've just finished wringing out my undies

Funniest thing since Laurel n Hardy

£6.5k a year for a degree course at an 'excellent' university

By what fcuking criteria is our local home for backward girls and boys 'excellent'

There are certain courses I can recommend with absolute confidence for clever boys and girls...

You could try applying CAPS... but... you know..

Good luck anyway...

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:32 am

CAPSLOCK wrote:

Heard an advert on the wireless about 3 hours ago and I've just finished wringing out my undies

Funniest thing since Laurel n Hardy

£6.5k a year for a degree course at an 'excellent' university

By what fcuking criteria is our local home for backward girls and boys 'excellent'

"My name's Jack, and I live in the back, of the Greta Garbo Home for wayward boys and girls".

Relentless09 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:28 am

Mentioned this before, to do Sports Science at University of Ulster, N.Ireland you need two A's and one B, in Physical Education and preferably biology as well. At Bolton University you need 3 C's with no preferred subjects apart from P.E

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:13 am

There are 120 'Universities' in the UK today.

OK, many are converted Aldi's or former Nursey's but they have that status.

Bolton's ranking is .... #120. Last year there were only 116, I assume a few small garages were converted in the period. Up to that point Bolton's position was ... #116.

Way to go on the prestige stakes guys !

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:22 am

bobo the clown wrote:

There are 120 'Universities' in the UK today.

OK, many are converted Aldi's or former Nursey's but they have that status.

Bolton's ranking is .... #120. Last year there were only 116, I assume a few small garages were converted in the period. Up to that point Bolton's position was ... #116.

Way to go on the prestige stakes guys !

How's that being measured though, Bobo? I work in technical textiles and Bolton Uni is pretty much revered within the field.

thebish · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:25 am

bloody norah - whence this urge to shit on your own town???

Hoboh · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:12 am

The 'Uni' is representitive of multicultural Bolton and its ambitious development council, a shambles!

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:45 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

bobo the clown wrote:

There are 120 'Universities' in the UK today.

OK, many are converted Aldi's or former Nursey's but they have that status.

Bolton's ranking is .... #120. Last year there were only 116, I assume a few small garages were converted in the period. Up to that point Bolton's position was ... #116.

Way to go on the prestige stakes guys !

How's that being measured though, Bobo? I work in technical textiles and Bolton Uni is pretty much revered within the field.

National measures. Look it up yourself.

It's a Technical College. That's fine. It's not a University except in the dumbing down sense of the 1990's expansion terms.

It's not crapping on your town, it's recognising standards ... & when they aren't there.

Porrohman · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:02 pm

Yeah it's a shit uni because you can't go gondoling down the River Croal or make a shite tv series about nobby nobs getting bumped off.

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:52 pm

It's a shit Uni because it offers generally shit courses to generally shit students with, in most cases, shit entry qualifications and they achieve shit final qualifications which qualify them for shit jobs.

I'm sure there are exceptions .... just not very many.

That's why they are 120th out of 120.

It is a result of shit Higher Education expansion policies over the past 15-20 years.

No shit.

If it was a football team it would have been relegated from the Conference and looking unlikely to hold it's place in the Unibond.

Worthy4England · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:19 pm

Aye I went late to Uni (at 29). Was with some trepidation that I gave up a secure job to do so, and worried for a number of weeks about whether I'd be able to hack the pace. This was further exacerbated when a number of folks on my team in the first semester declared a volume of grade A, A levels. Maths, Physics, Chemy amongst them.

Could have saved myself the worry. The guys with an A in maths could barely add up. By the time we got to long divides, they were reaching for revision notes. Not a criticism for the guys involved. They'd passed what they needed to pass. And I'm sure there's plenty of folk better at maths than me, but a sad indictment of the state of education, nonetheless.

I was employed 25 hours a week in my final year (during "lecture time") and managed to knock out a dissertation in two days - although it took a third day to get the thing printed and bound. :-)

To me that smacked of "too easy" and I think I have a devalued qualification because of it. In the final analysis it did the trick, as I landed the type of job I was after with the type of company I wanted to work for, and I certainly learned "stuff" relevant to the type of career I wanted to follow.

I still feel we're letting everyone down by having devalued qualifications though.

Gail Platz · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 4:09 pm

University is an absolute joke. I clocked on in my first year that the standard of teaching was piss poor and I'd get more out of my day by doing an hour's work in my room and 2 hours scratching my arse rather than going to a lecture/tutorial, learning jack shit then having to trek back home.

If you want to learn something, learn it yourself.

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:31 pm

Hoboh wrote:

The 'Uni' is representitive of multicultural Bolton and its ambitious development council, a shambles!

Look - there are local elections later on this year. If you're as bothered as to how our town's run as you make out then put yourself up for election. Either shit or get off of the pot!

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:39 pm

Gail Platz wrote:

University is an absolute joke. I clocked on in my first year that the standard of teaching was piss poor and I'd get more out of my day by doing an hour's work in my room and 2 hours scratching my arse rather than going to a lecture/tutorial, learning jack shit then having to trek back home.

If you want to learn something, learn it yourself.

That depends more on ;
The quality of Uni
The quality of the course
Your own ability

If you truly can achieve that then it's a piss poor course, or you're a fckg genius.

Go on, make my day. Which is it ?

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:44 pm

Having worked with quite a few (a lot actually) of those multi-culturals Hoboh,, I can safely say they're employed because they're very good at what they do. They don't all work on tele-sales in India.

Athers · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:10 pm

davroduk wrote:

If you are from another country then the good old British Government, will pay the fees for you to come over here and take the p1££ and get your degree in what ever you want.

What?

I had a Malaysian housemate at Uni in 2003. My fees paid for by Wigan council were £1.1k. His fees paid by his parents were £11k a year.

Hoboh · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:20 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Hoboh wrote:

The 'Uni' is representitive of multicultural Bolton and its ambitious development council, a shambles!

Look - there are local elections later on this year. If you're as bothered as to how our town's run as you make out then put yourself up for election. Either shit or get off of the pot!

You gonna stump up the kind of cash an independant needs to compete with the Morris Mafia?

Thought not!

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:46 pm

Hoboh wrote:

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Hoboh wrote:

The 'Uni' is representitive of multicultural Bolton and its ambitious development council, a shambles!

Look - there are local elections later on this year. If you're as bothered as to how our town's run as you make out then put yourself up for election. Either shit or get off of the pot!

You gonna stump up the kind of cash an independant needs to compete with the Morris Mafia?

Thought not!

It's not me that's bleating on. Why would I stump up anything for a bee-in-bonnet prick like you? By the way, it's independent.

So, if you're admitting that you're not prepared to even attempt to alter anything, then just shut the feck up. Cheers.

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