They should stop funding all these degree courses that are a waste of time; history of art, fashion management, Scottish poetry. If you want to do a course that’s essentially a hobby, they should be lumbered with the fees, not the Scottish taxpayer
Mods can you do something about /u/kaluna99?
Literally his entire posting history is chucking out abuse at people.
Free tuition simply needs to go given the state of Scotland’s finances. But if the freebies are to be retained then restrict to STEM courses only. Asking the taxpayer to pony-up for kids to learn the likes of Gaelic, Art History or Meedjia Studies is absurd.
As my old Geography professor once told us during a lecture,
“*Some of my peers around here do for a living what most of us do for free*”.
The target of his ire was the English Literature department who, for 20+ years, had been stealing a living by waxing lyrical about Marxist interpretations of Shakespeare.
I’m glad they’ve just raised taxes on higher earners to make these cuts possible…
In 2003 there seemed to be so many free places. I got in and did Biochemistry at Dundee.
It’s tragic that this is being cut, neighbours daughter never got a place despite being an A student on her grades (to be a doctor).
It’s all well and good saying there is free places, but if the unis would rather give them to fee paying students and slowly cut away at students who are more likely to stay and contribute to Scotland then we need to look at how the free places are funded to let the most amount of Scottish students a chance.
I wish they could target spending better. They’ve cut funding forcing universities to cut back on loss making courses.
Many loss making courses produce graduates with greater economic productivity than those who sit more profitable courses. Can’t recall the source but I remember reading the reason many universities down south where flooded with “fluffy” courses was because they where extremely cheap to run compared to more traditional academia, and they where making the same £9k from them either way. Engineering & medical courses where considered on the more expensive spectrum for them to run.
Universities aren’t driven by education, they are driven by profit.
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So 3 posts about Rangers and now this? Very odd.
So 2 posts about Rangers and now this? Very odd.
They should stop funding all these degree courses that are a waste of time; history of art, fashion management, Scottish poetry. If you want to do a course that’s essentially a hobby, they should be lumbered with the fees, not the Scottish taxpayer
Mods can you do something about /u/kaluna99?
Literally his entire posting history is chucking out abuse at people.
Free tuition simply needs to go given the state of Scotland’s finances. But if the freebies are to be retained then restrict to STEM courses only. Asking the taxpayer to pony-up for kids to learn the likes of Gaelic, Art History or Meedjia Studies is absurd.
As my old Geography professor once told us during a lecture,
“*Some of my peers around here do for a living what most of us do for free*”.
The target of his ire was the English Literature department who, for 20+ years, had been stealing a living by waxing lyrical about Marxist interpretations of Shakespeare.
I’m glad they’ve just raised taxes on higher earners to make these cuts possible…
In 2003 there seemed to be so many free places. I got in and did Biochemistry at Dundee.
It’s tragic that this is being cut, neighbours daughter never got a place despite being an A student on her grades (to be a doctor).
It’s all well and good saying there is free places, but if the unis would rather give them to fee paying students and slowly cut away at students who are more likely to stay and contribute to Scotland then we need to look at how the free places are funded to let the most amount of Scottish students a chance.
I wish they could target spending better. They’ve cut funding forcing universities to cut back on loss making courses.
Many loss making courses produce graduates with greater economic productivity than those who sit more profitable courses. Can’t recall the source but I remember reading the reason many universities down south where flooded with “fluffy” courses was because they where extremely cheap to run compared to more traditional academia, and they where making the same £9k from them either way. Engineering & medical courses where considered on the more expensive spectrum for them to run.
Universities aren’t driven by education, they are driven by profit.