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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Nick on January 28, 2008, 09:23:31 AM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7209276.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7209276.stm)
I heard this on the news late last night and woke up assuming I had dreamt it. But I hadn't rubschin:
What say the regulars?
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I heard this unbelievable shite on the radio this morning…
More bullshit and re-announcing of stuff to cover up more lies and sleaze. noooo:
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It is also an annoucement of an announcement Banghead cussing:
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It’ll look great on your CV… PhD (Burgers) noooo:
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Thinking about it… claiming to have been educated in ‘The University of Life’ would probably be more prestigious… noooo:
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This stuff has an impact on my "work". I am presently in communication with the great and the good in the world of educashun about this and may impart some of their pearls of wisdom as they come to me.
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I don't have a problem with vocational courses that are geared towards a particular job or career path. These seem to be an easy(?) way of gaining an academic qualification through the building up of 'units' gained via a glorified work experience route.
I doubt if universities will consider them sufficient for admission.
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There are some links to the new "Diplomas" also being discounted by universities but being pushed heavily by the Govt.
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I don't have a problem with vocational courses that are geared towards a particular job or career path. These seem to be an easy(?) way of gaining an academic qualification through the building up of 'units' gained via a glorified work experience route.
I doubt if universities will consider them sufficient for admission.
Unless you were applying for a job in the canteen of course… whistle:
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You can just imagine the McAlevels exam questions
You serve a customer who orders a Big Mac Whopper McDog burger and pays £5. Do you:
a) Give £1.50 change
b) Give £1.75 change
c) Ask if he want fries with that.
Banghead
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Didn’t they (this pathetic ‘government’) announce the other day that cookery lessons would be compulsory in schools?
Do you think there is a link here, abolish all higher-education establishments and anybody that can’t get shoe-horned into a job by daddy when they are 16 are straight off to McShite to continue their edukashun – already pre-trained on how to flip a burger?
rubschin:
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Maybe but I can see another problem here. The announcement about teaching cooking in schools is supposed to be part of the Government's so called strategy to combat obesity. So giving kids A levels in flipping burgers kind of torpedoes that doesnt it?
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Maybe but I can see another problem here. The announcement about teaching cooking in schools is supposed to be part of the Government's so called strategy to combat obesity. So giving kids A levels in flipping burgers kind of torpedoes that doesnt it?
Except they’ll be slaving away for a pittance at the new McUniversity so they won’t be able to afford (or face prolly) the burgers… whistle:
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The get a 'meal' allowance per shift though sick2:
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There are some links to the new "Diplomas" also being discounted by universities but being pushed heavily by the Govt.
Indeed:
Fewer than four in 10 university admissions officers see the vocational Diploma as a "good alternative" to A-levels, a survey suggests
I noticed this from the same article:
The first courses will be in construction, engineering, health, IT and media.
No mention of the fast-food indusry.
rubschin:
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That nice Mr Balls declared those new Diplomas "a great success". They don't start till this coming September noooo:
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I suspect that these diplomas are going to be mainly for people on benefits, dont get a job on go on one of these half assed training courses and you lose our payments.
Its an ill conceived plan which has only been brought out to reduce spending and not to improve academic and vocational training.
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It also has a connection with the "raising of the school leaving age" to 18
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I don't have a problem with vocational courses that are geared towards a particular job or career path. These seem to be an easy(?) way of gaining an academic qualification through the building up of 'units' gained via a glorified work experience route.
I doubt if universities will consider them sufficient for admission.
rather like the stars on their badges ?
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Sorry? what stars? what badges?
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Sorry? what stars? what badges?
It's quite plain that Unc has never visited the Golden Arches then!
Mickey D's employees get stars on their badges. I don't think they're for customer service, more a sort of long service thing (since McD have little idea of what constitutes customer service).
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Sorry? what stars? what badges?
It's quite plain that Unc has never visited the Golden Arches then!
Mickey D's employees get stars on their badges. I don't think they're for customer service, more a sort of long service thing (since McD have little idea of what constitutes customer service).
quite
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Ah I see, a prolefood outlet.
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Sorry? what stars? what badges?
It's quite plain that Unc has never visited the Golden Arches then!
Mickey D's employees get stars on their badges. I don't think they're for customer service, more a sort of long service thing (since McD have little idea of what constitutes customer service).
You last five days, you get five stars ;)