Basically UK Universities make more money out of foreign students which pay far more than British students. This is a Government that hates its own people and wants to keep us poor and unqualified. I will add just for balance it was Tony Blair of Labour that introduced tuition fees to University
Especially those who mix numbers and send
In payments of £910 instead of £190.
But then they cannae go to school to learn their numbers!
I have no school qualifications. I (as a mature student) went to university using loans. My subsequent research output has been published by WIPO – innit.
Oh, yes, I’m dyslexic.
Feels similar to short people and women not being able to attract a sports grant because they lack the potential to be the best at their sport.
Times are tough in every sector, so resources get prioritised to the best candidates.
Twas ever thus.
Capable dyslexic people with a gift for academia will still pass the exams and get loans. Everyone else should find a path better suited to their strengths.
[deleted]
I’m dyslexic and a software engineer, a high-paid one, so I assume that means I’m good. What’s nice about coding is it breaks if you type it wrong, so you can’t. It would be nice if sentences crashed in real life if they were typed wrong.
There’s a lot of auto-complete too. Basically, what I’m saying is certainly for the software engineering degrees, you don’t need to block student loans because it has next to no impact on the ability to problem solve with code.
I can’t speak on other fields.
I can see some merit in the proposals but they’re missing the vital middle pieces to make them fair.
As things stand fail your gcse at 16 then it’s what, 100 quid a pop or something to take it again.
That’s a lot of money for many young people.
Make it so resits are easier (not just once or twice a year) and drastically cheaper then you can begin to think about mandating you need to pass unrelated subjects.
It seems this ban would be discriminatory against many students including those with dyslexia.
I’m innumerate to an extraordinary state people can’t imagine because I’m a qualified nurse, have worked in ITU and paeds etc. When I did my nurse training I got in without maths and in those days we didn’t have to sit an assessment. I give drugs with zero probs as it’s learned on the job but I’d never have got in if I’d had to have a maths qualification.
Add dyspraxia and dyscalculia here too.
Both affect writing and maths skills respectively. I have a first class degree but only managed a borderline C in maths. I actually believe that had I been taught appropriately for my condition, I would have done better.
If I’d lost more marks on that paper from barriers due to my condition, I wouldn’t be where I am today if those rules had been imposed then.
Added to the fact that I wasn’t even diagnosed until I’d finished school and was in university, later confirmed by another assessment with a psychologist in my current work.
10 comments
Basically UK Universities make more money out of foreign students which pay far more than British students. This is a Government that hates its own people and wants to keep us poor and unqualified. I will add just for balance it was Tony Blair of Labour that introduced tuition fees to University
Especially those who mix numbers and send
In payments of £910 instead of £190.
But then they cannae go to school to learn their numbers!
I have no school qualifications. I (as a mature student) went to university using loans. My subsequent research output has been published by WIPO – innit.
Oh, yes, I’m dyslexic.
Feels similar to short people and women not being able to attract a sports grant because they lack the potential to be the best at their sport.
Times are tough in every sector, so resources get prioritised to the best candidates.
Twas ever thus.
Capable dyslexic people with a gift for academia will still pass the exams and get loans. Everyone else should find a path better suited to their strengths.
[deleted]
I’m dyslexic and a software engineer, a high-paid one, so I assume that means I’m good. What’s nice about coding is it breaks if you type it wrong, so you can’t. It would be nice if sentences crashed in real life if they were typed wrong.
There’s a lot of auto-complete too. Basically, what I’m saying is certainly for the software engineering degrees, you don’t need to block student loans because it has next to no impact on the ability to problem solve with code.
I can’t speak on other fields.
I can see some merit in the proposals but they’re missing the vital middle pieces to make them fair.
As things stand fail your gcse at 16 then it’s what, 100 quid a pop or something to take it again.
That’s a lot of money for many young people.
Make it so resits are easier (not just once or twice a year) and drastically cheaper then you can begin to think about mandating you need to pass unrelated subjects.
It seems this ban would be discriminatory against many students including those with dyslexia.
I’m innumerate to an extraordinary state people can’t imagine because I’m a qualified nurse, have worked in ITU and paeds etc. When I did my nurse training I got in without maths and in those days we didn’t have to sit an assessment. I give drugs with zero probs as it’s learned on the job but I’d never have got in if I’d had to have a maths qualification.
Add dyspraxia and dyscalculia here too.
Both affect writing and maths skills respectively. I have a first class degree but only managed a borderline C in maths. I actually believe that had I been taught appropriately for my condition, I would have done better.
If I’d lost more marks on that paper from barriers due to my condition, I wouldn’t be where I am today if those rules had been imposed then.
Added to the fact that I wasn’t even diagnosed until I’d finished school and was in university, later confirmed by another assessment with a psychologist in my current work.