It's still a degree, it's a "proper" University, and you're an arrogant
arse-hole

wrote:
StaticFish wrote:

2) Actaully smartarse, It used to be Roehampton Instutute, but as
of
around 2000 it has University status. I do a computer programing
course. A seperate cambus from the teaching section. so Shhh

My point exactly - it was renamed as a university when labour
devalued
degrees by converting polys into universities and giving them degree
awarding powers.

StaticFish wrote:
It's still a degree, it's a "proper" University, and you're an
arrogant
arse-hole


Yes it is a degree and yes Roehampton does seem to be one of the better
new universities (number 64 in the times online league tables)

The fact still remains that students of computing at Roehampton are
only required to get 200 UCAS points (thats a C and 2 D's at A level)

wrote:
StaticFish wrote:

It's still a degree, it's a "proper" University, and you're an

arrogant

arse-hole

Yes it is a degree and yes Roehampton does seem to be one of the better
new universities (number 64 in the times online league tables)

The fact still remains that students of computing at Roehampton are
only required to get 200 UCAS points (thats a C and 2 D's at A level)

Why are you continuing on with this snobbery?
--
Michael Hoffman

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:18:28, wrote:


StaticFish wrote:
It's still a degree, it's a "proper" University, and you're an
arrogant
arse-hole


Yes it is a degree and yes Roehampton does seem to be one of the better
new universities (number 64 in the times online league tables)

The fact still remains that students of computing at Roehampton are
only required to get 200 UCAS points (thats a C and 2 D's at A level)

That'll be a D and two E's in 1970 O-Level terms then.

--
Jim Crowther "It's MY computer" (tm SMG)

Always learning.

Jim Crowther wrote the
following in:

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:18:28, wrote:


StaticFish wrote:
It's still a degree, it's a "proper" University, and you're an
arrogant
arse-hole


Yes it is a degree and yes Roehampton does seem to be one of the
better new universities (number 64 in the times online league
tables)

The fact still remains that students of computing at Roehampton
are only required to get 200 UCAS points (thats a C and 2 D's at A
level)

That'll be a D and two E's in 1970 O-Level terms then.

Ah yes, qualifications don't mean anything, blah blah blah. The world
we live in is very different now than it was in the 1970s. If a person
from the 70s were to travel through time and find themself in 2005, I
doubt they'd be able to do much of any use no matter what grades they
got. The world changes. Move with it.

--
message by Robin May. That egotism was getting old.

http://robinmay.fotopic.net

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:24:03, Robin May wrote:

The world changes. Move with it.

Quite, so stop the politicos from ****ing about with the perceived value
of academic (or vocational) qualifications then.

Totally OT, so FU to poster

--
Jim Crowther "It's MY computer" (tm SMG)

Always learning.

Robin May wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 17 Jan 2005:


Ah yes, qualifications don't mean anything, blah blah blah. The world
we live in is very different now than it was in the 1970s. If a person
from the 70s were to travel through time and find themself in 2005, I
doubt they'd be able to do much of any use no matter what grades they
got. The world changes. Move with it.

And some of us who did just that - the usual way, one day at a time -
can't do much with it anyway!
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 2 January 2005

Robin May typed


Ah yes, qualifications don't mean anything, blah blah blah. The world
we live in is very different now than it was in the 1970s. If a person
from the 70s were to travel through time and find themself in 2005, I
doubt they'd be able to do much of any use no matter what grades they
got. The world changes. Move with it.

I had all my O Levels and A Levels in the 70s. I cope fine with the
world, even if my SO and friends spend much time grouching about poor
English in the things we read...

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

wrote:
The fact still remains that students of computing at Roehampton are
only required to get 200 UCAS points (thats a C and 2 D's at A level)

That's an entry requirement ... not the standard of degrees they award.
You'd be better off showing evidence (if it exists) that their teaching
is substandard or that they award degrees to people who don't deserve
them.

#Paul

The fact still remains that students of computing at
Roehampton are only required to get 200 UCAS
points (thats a C and 2 D's at A level)

The entry requirements for degree courses have
always been a much better indication of popularity
than quality. High entry requirements usually mean
that a course is extremely popular and so the
institution has set high grades to restrict the number
of applicants to a reasonable level for processing.

Thus, in general, the entry requirements for
physical science courses are lower than those for,
say, English. Not because you need to be more
clever to do English than physics, but because more
people want to do English than physics.


Matt Ashby