UNI Rant

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I pay the Uni to basically, teach myself

i tried uni to get back into ICT about 4 years ago, i decided to self fund as there wasnt a uni grant support for the course. so with in 3 weeks, i had seen a fella who was in the ict industary pull the lecture a part over some test papers he had done. he said you wouldnt do any of those answers in the real world at all!
the lecture just used to scratch his chin every time he got stuck and tried to bull shit his way out. he basically said theres the labs do them. so there was no point in him even been there! i could have done the labs on 3 systems i had linked up at the time at home! i found i was taught better at college than at uni. as i had signed up to the same course, but only to do the server side stuff again.
so i emailed the lecture and rapped it in. told the uni that the course wasnt even worth the money and the lecture was poor. at least with the college lectures they went thru the labs with you as a class and went into more indepth stuff too. as people really took interest. but at uni people were not even there 5 mins!

I know exactly what you mean! There are some courses at Manchester where i've heard similiar things about but students who stick at the course always have other motives - i.e. the 'uni experience' ... take away their loans and the vast majority would be long gone back home.

I have two good friends who are studying accounting. Ones at Bham uni and is in his final year doing well. Another is doing a couse called ACT at a further education plate. Now the ACT dude is in some ways soo much better off due to the practical nature of his job giving him the experience that is essential in accounting. Graduates often find it difficult to compete as they lack this experience and their expensive paperwork doesn't qualify them as being good at their job..

I unfortunately haven't a choice. My course revolves around a new concept of medical teaching called PBL - problem based learning. Every uni in the country uses it to a limited extent but at Manchester, we use it solely. It's basically DIY doctors. When i say teach myself. Its pretty much that. We get given a real life scenario of someone with an illness. An account of symptoms and tests and treatment .. i.e. diabetes.. then we have to go learn EVERYTHING about that case in order to understand wtf is going on.. all in a week. Little guidance is given compared to the more traditional course where they give ample lectures and learning material.. If i learn the wrong shit, well thats my fuk up. I can do as much as i want or as little.. its up to me what i read. Unfortunately, i can't just slap a white coat on if i learn this at home soooo... the Uni gets my money to give me my piece of paper saying i'm 'safe' to practice