I remember back in the early 1980s when a representative of the Engineering Society said that an engineering honours degree from our ancient university was worth less than a CNAA engineering degree from the world-class Central Institution (now a university) in the same city.Nowt wrong with the former Polytechnicsmy degree for my field is worth the exact same as the degree from other unis for the same job (specific degree I appreciate) but it means squat for many professions. Not on MN though obvs lol
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I donât get the RG obsession.
I went to a *gasp* non Russel Group uni.
they didnât join RG because they have one of the worlds leading research depts, and didnât need the money or the marketing. Consistently ranks above oxbridge and one of the top in Europe.
I think our year had 100% employment, and most of us has people come knocking on our doors. I had Oxford Uni contact me to ask if I wanted to do a PhD with them, funded.
RG is one of the best sales tools Iâve ever seen. Itâs somehow got people convinced RG is better, so they donât even bother looking at non RG performance.
I went to a *gasp* non Russel Group uni.
they didnât join RG because they have one of the worlds leading research depts, and didnât need the money or the marketing. Consistently ranks above oxbridge and one of the top in Europe.
I think our year had 100% employment, and most of us has people come knocking on our doors. I had Oxford Uni contact me to ask if I wanted to do a PhD with them, funded.
RG is one of the best sales tools Iâve ever seen. Itâs somehow got people convinced RG is better, so they donât even bother looking at non RG performance.
As weâve said before on here. Loughborough isnât a Russell Group Uni and is one of the Top Ten in the U.K. and itâs where most of Team GB go. St Andrews isnât either and was recently rated higher than Oxbridge.
Thereâs a thread about inappropriate things that have happened to you that is feeding the perverts.
I reckon it was started innocently enough but the stories will be giving the pervs plenty of cheap thrills. There have even been posts on it asking people not to feed it.
I reckon it was started innocently enough but the stories will be giving the pervs plenty of cheap thrills. There have even been posts on it asking people not to feed it.
Yes, it's all gone very icky on there.
The thread that got me this morning was the lady whoâs son was farrrrr too clever to go to mainstream school, but she couldnât understand why sheâd have to fill in forms about her finances to get him a bursary for a private school.
Get your genius 12 year old to explain to you why youâd need to show the school how you canât afford it when you want them to fund his place.
Get your genius 12 year old to explain to you why youâd need to show the school how you canât afford it when you want them to fund his place.
That thread was hilarious
I ended up feeling a bit sorry for her in the end (if it was true) as some of the replies were so spiteful. Then sparkling brook turned up with her trademark confused emojis and I couldnât bear to read any more.
There's quite a few guilt tripping trolls posting on the various 'should I let my aged parent move in with myself, DC and DH' threads.
Ahh Sparklingbrook one of the resident hierarchical arseholes.
Where's Babblingbrook when we need him/her/it?
I donât think she meant it as bad as it came across. But Iâm also imagining her child isnât actually very bright at all just has a superiority complex
. My mother always told everyone who would listen, and myself that I was extremely intelligent, when infact Iâm average at best just smarter than her 
They all think their children are âextremely brightâ yet they all needed 2 years of tutoring to get into grammar school. If youâre genuinely bright you donât need any tutoring!
Oh and theyâre also all tall and slim and sporty. No fat, short kids who sit on Minecraft all day, even though statistically that will be most kidsâŚ.
Oh and theyâre also all tall and slim and sporty. No fat, short kids who sit on Minecraft all day, even though statistically that will be most kidsâŚ.
Ugh it's depressing isn't it?
An awful lot of them seem to be ex pats too. I think that's about as likely as their huge salaries...
The MN obsession with Russell Group universities is fascinating. I have never heard anyone else, anywhere, obsess about the RG as much as MNers.
Turns out I actually went to an RG uni. Discovered this around 10-15 years after graduation. And I bet the sniffy helicopter parents of MN would still sneer at it because itâs one of the less highly regarded ones
Turns out I actually went to an RG uni. Discovered this around 10-15 years after graduation. And I bet the sniffy helicopter parents of MN would still sneer at it because itâs one of the less highly regarded ones
These types of parents are the worst. I expect she thought the school would be so desperate to have her son and his genius on board, theyâd either wave him in no questions asked, or pay her for the privilege of his attendance.
All children are tutored for grammar school and it isn't because they aren't bright or clever. At least that's the case where I live.
I dont know exact numbers but if the pass mark is 200, anything over that is a pass and gets you into a grammar school. Our local grammar school only offers 60 places to the first 60 highest scorers over the pass mark so say someone gets 300 as the highest, the next 59 below that get a place. If more than one gets the same score they offer it to the closest to the school. The children are being tutored to get into the top 60 to get the highest they can and not tutored just to pass
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Me and my brother went to good grammar schools and neither of us were tutored, we just did some practise papers at home with our mum. Same with several of my friends.
Grammar schools are supposed to be for the academically very bright. If you need tutoring to pass the eleven plus you are not clever enough and will not be able to handle the pressure of a grammar school. The real reason they are so fixated on grammar schools is because they canât afford to go private but donât want their kids to mix with the riff raff at a bog standard comp.
I agree - the kids I know who got tutored heavily were in bottom sets and got mostly Bâs anyway. Grammar school does push you upwards if youâre average and manage to get in, so I get why people tutor, but I think if youâre genuinely bright you shouldnât need it (bar some practise to know the format).
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