A recent survey by the Higher Education Policy Institute has revealed that there is a significant gap between the old and new universities where student work levels are concerned AND the more laid back students in the former polytechnics still end up with top degrees for less effort.Is there any area of modern life where honesty, integrity and hard work are actually rewarded?
This was the inevitable consequence of: grade inflation, dumbing down, mickey mouse subjects and academic subjects being offered to the less-than-academic.
Originally, the polys were designed for the advancement of technical and vocational education. Excellent. Why change that?
Mind you. The first lowering of these standards occurred under the Thatcher reign. For once, the left does not get the initial blame although they must shoulder responsibility for just about everything else since.
Today of course, the university is not a place of education but rather "an engine for the destruction of social elitism." Basically, this means that people must not be rewarded for being better than others.
Don't believe me? - Read the appalling link below. No prizes - that would be elitist - for guessing which paper could write such pap.
"The government is making top universities more elitist than ever by forcing them to recruit more widely."
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LINK: http://education.guardian.co.uk/
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