Friday 26 December 2014

We don't need your stinkin' employment data rules, either!

Wow!  People suspect that it goes on, but when the disgruntled lecturer(s) actually get things like this 'confirmed', it still shocks us.  What shocks us you ask?   The fact that the degree farm has an extremely high success rate regarding students finding employment or going on to further education?  That's good, right?  Depends on what you mean by 'further education'.  Because that isn't it.  It's the fact that the degree farm apparently helps it's employment stats by paying graduated students who haven't found work or have gone into further education £200 to sign up for a 'course' at the degree farm (what 'course' pays YOU £200 to join, we wonder), so that they can be counted as 'successes' for the degree farm's statistics.  Meaning, that a high percentage of graduates have either found work or are continuing education within 6 months of graduation.  So parents, you, too, can pay up to £9,000/year on your child's education in return for a £200 return for your now-educated, unemployed progeny.  We'll have to ask a finance lecturer to figure out those returns, but it seems that the only positive benefit we see is would be for the degree farm.

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