Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 08:04 AM |
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Whats education coming to??
Well i knew some universities offer some real mickey mouse "degree" courses but this is really taking the biscuit!! If i did this course
i'd be ashamed to call myself a graduate!!!  
Mickey Mouse
Now i for one am all for doing away with putting degree students into huge debt but only for "proper" degree courses.
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smart51
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 08:22 AM |
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You're right to say "proper" degree courses. The article refers to "foundation degrees". These are 2 year courses and
I guess are broadly equivelent to HNDs. Why they have to call them degrees I don't know because it just devalues the bachelor's
degree.
A slight asside, in these days of equality, Shouldn't female students be awarded spinster degrees instead?
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designer
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 08:47 AM |
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The sad thing is that a retired teacher over here keeps telling me that education has never been better in the UK!!!!
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worX
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 08:53 AM |
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It hasn't!
It's just that it was absolutely appalling before!
Steve
quote:
Originally posted by designer
The sad thing is that a retired teacher over here keeps telling me that education has never been better in the UK!!!!
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dhutch
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 09:03 AM |
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The thing is, i think its largly a good idea.
- Give sales people a bit of the background, and the bigger picture, and all that.
- Ditto if you must, giving fast food workers a chance to get some sort of qualifition and understanding beond just being able to flip burgers
badly.
However my grip, as a second year mech eng masters student on a year sandwich with an large engineering company , is that rather than come up with a
name for them. They have reused names from a higher up leval of qualification.
- Its bad enough that people think im a mechanic. Im now waiting for the time someone compairs that to working for a bed company on day release to a
university collage. Haha.
No, i mean, in all honesty its actually a good thing, and i dont have a problem with mechanics, or even people thinking that i am one.
However i do think it is mistleasing and unnessary, and unfair, to be so careless in the naming of such things.
- Ditto calling plumber 'heating engineers' of cause.
- You dont get nurses calling themself 'bloodtest and urine sample' doctors. Often...
Daniel
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02GF74
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 10:01 AM |
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here is how to sell a bed.
shop assistant 1: Can I help you sir.
customer. I'd like to buy a bed.
shop assistant 1: Please go to our furntiure department on the second floor.
customer now on second floor.
shop assistant 2: Can I help you sir?
customer. Yes, I'd like to buy a bed.
shop assistant: Well you've come to the right place. Over there we have a selection of bed, please try them out. But don't make me say
matress.
customer after lying on a few beds.
customer. I think I take this one. How much is it?
shop assistant: This one is £ 350, we can do 6 mohtns interest free.
customer. Excellent. I'll take one *
cusotmer fills out paper work and is told that deliver takes 4 to 6 weeks.
Bed sold.
Harly need for any specialist training in my opinion. Talk about dumbing down.
* or more likley customer walks off and buys the bed on the internet.
[Edited on 14/4/08 by 02GF74]
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smart51
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 10:32 AM |
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Perhaps they'll be trained in orthopedics and will give advice on what firmness of matress to sell you. Hmmm. Perhaps a GCSE in selling beds
would be enough.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 10:33 AM |
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They'd be better off doing a Ba (or MBa!) in Business Studies - now that IS a hard course, and worth something at the end of it, both for the
employer and the student.
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smart51
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 10:54 AM |
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If you had an MBA, you wouldn't take a job selling beds.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 11:13 AM |
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Well, if it was a decent company they'd spend time and money developing their staff, to Ba standard for the better people.
But in this case, I very much doubt it!
[Edited on 14/4/08 by David Jenkins]
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Gav
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 11:21 AM |
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err its not a course on how to sell beds that just the headline, its course on retail managment for mangers....
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 11:26 AM |
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Fair comment!
(note to self: read the whole article before spouting off...)
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DIY Si
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 02:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Fair comment!
(note to self: read the whole article before spouting off...)
What?! And let facts get in the way of a good moan? Shirley not...... 
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 14/4/08 at 02:36 PM |
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And don't call me Shirley!
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