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It seems to me it is an elitist view that when you provide a service to the unwashed masses, it must be of lower quality But it must be. An institution with AA
by gaius 9y ago
It seems to me it is an elitist view that when you provide a service to the unwashed masses, it must be of lower quality
But it must be. An institution with AAA A-level students can teach more advanced material at a faster pace than one that admits EEEs. This is surely obvious, no?
It doesn’t mean anyone is better or worse in a moral sense, it just means more or less academically able.
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- kingkongjaffa 9y agoNot at all. The ability to learn at university is not correlated with A-level results. Mastery of the material can help give a good starting point, but I've worked with fantastic E/D/C students and terrible AAA students.
- umanwizard 9y ago> The ability to learn at university is not correlated with A-level results. I’m very confident that this is false. Citation needed.
- iguy 9y agoability to learn at university is not correlated with A-level results This is incorrect. They are obviously not 100% correlated (even re-sitting the same exam isn't!) but the correlation is extremely strong.
- MaxBarraclough 9y ago> I've worked with fantastic E/D/C students and terrible AAA students The existence of outliers doesn't disprove a correlation.
- beojan 9y agoBut that's easily solved by having institutions for multiple A* students, and other institutions for EEE students. Which is the way it actually is.
- gaius 9y agoWell yes, but it’s not a reasonable system if non-Russell degrees cost as much but are actually irrelevant. Shouldn’t those students be funnelled towards qualifications and vocations for which there is real demand? There was nothing wrong with Polys when they were Polys.
- beojan 9y agoThey don't, in practice, because what you repay is linked to what you earn.
- xboxnolifes 9y agoJust because they accept them doesn't mean they need to keep them. If the students can't keep up, that's on them.
- megaman22 9y agoIt's pretty repugnant to accept students that have no capability to perform, take their money, and boot them when they fail out because they aren't prepared or equipped.
- pas 9y agoThey don't have to admit the EEE-level students, they don't have to water down. Yes, politically, it turns out, that universities were chopped up into research institutions (or research institutions were spun off from universities) and diploma mills, because even that shit level 2-3 years that people take to earn a Bachelor's degree means a lot on the job market.