: Why most UK degrees are junk, including mine
Average workload for social sciences at Southampton Uni: 23 hours per week. Even Southampton Poly students do more than that.
It's even worse for history, and Keele looks like one of the few UK universities that actually has standards left in marking.
Mathematics degrees are far more valuable by any sensible definition, a smidge under 30 hours at Soton, and only 22 hours at Bristol (and boy, does it ever show on Channel 4 afternoons).
As for biology, Southampton degrees compare - or should compare - unfavourably with those from such great institutions as Northumbria Poly, London Met - and looky here! Cambridge Poly and Oxford Poly come in ahead of every non-Oxbridge institution in the Russell Group!
As for the civilised countries of Europe, their degrees do mean something.
My degree is a part-time degree, and yet UK employers will compare it unfavourably to full-time degrees from elsewhere.
If I were an international employer, I wouldn't even bother to interview most UK applicants.
I am gaining an unfair advantage from UK higher education, I do not deserve it, and as such am extremely tempted by the idea of postgraduate study in a country where a degree is actually worth attaining. Sadly, the UK is treated as a country where this is true, entirely wrongly in almost every case, and if that is not changed in the medium term the UK economy will become utterly impotent against a European economy that does the same things but far, far better.
Average workload for social sciences at Southampton Uni: 23 hours per week. Even Southampton Poly students do more than that.
It's even worse for history, and Keele looks like one of the few UK universities that actually has standards left in marking.
Mathematics degrees are far more valuable by any sensible definition, a smidge under 30 hours at Soton, and only 22 hours at Bristol (and boy, does it ever show on Channel 4 afternoons).
As for biology, Southampton degrees compare - or should compare - unfavourably with those from such great institutions as Northumbria Poly, London Met - and looky here! Cambridge Poly and Oxford Poly come in ahead of every non-Oxbridge institution in the Russell Group!
As for the civilised countries of Europe, their degrees do mean something.
My degree is a part-time degree, and yet UK employers will compare it unfavourably to full-time degrees from elsewhere.
If I were an international employer, I wouldn't even bother to interview most UK applicants.
I am gaining an unfair advantage from UK higher education, I do not deserve it, and as such am extremely tempted by the idea of postgraduate study in a country where a degree is actually worth attaining. Sadly, the UK is treated as a country where this is true, entirely wrongly in almost every case, and if that is not changed in the medium term the UK economy will become utterly impotent against a European economy that does the same things but far, far better.