really?
Including those science degrees? Has being a doctor got easier? Has humanities at Oxford got easier?

Doubtful.
(skgorsky, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 10:49, 1 reply)

Devaluation
Medicine is still the memory feat for borderline Asperger's type with poor social skills that ever it was. Humanities at Oxford is probably still a tough business of two tutorials, a few lectures and a lot of rehearsals, madrigal sessions and clubbing that ever it was.

Alas, though, the concept of a degree in general is suffering from such degrees as Dance with Waste Management and Dance with Equine Studies (thank you, "University" of Northampton for those two).

Nobody wins. The kids conned into worthless degrees waste three years and shitload of cash. The kids taking real degrees find their efforts devalued by the rubbish.

The Law of Unintended Conequences has kicked in big time with the new fees and loan structures. The idea was to make students take financial responsibility for their studies, but since only graduates who get well paid jobs will pay back a penny, the doctor, engineers, lawyers, teachers and other professionals have to subsidise the Dance and Equine Studies brigade, who will be lucky if they achieve minimum wage.
(ubergeekian, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 11:55, closed)