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Hobbit said:
Back in the 70's, of a school year intake of over 300 only 5 went on to uni. The opportunities to go to uni were very limited. But there were a plethora of Polys and technical colleges. Those Polys and technical colleges have become universities, with a significantly higher number of different degree courses available.

Just because many of the current crop of young people have degrees doesn't make them better educated than older people. Also, there's various equivalency tables that show that a number of degrees available today are on a par with some HND's/HNC's from yesteryear.

Then there's the modern apprenticeships that in some fields are quite poor compared to the 4 year apprenticeships available from 30 years ago. You'd be amazed at the number of HND and degree qualified electronics techs and engineers I've put through our selection process who can't wire a 13 amp plug, even with the instruction sheet they are given.

However, youngsters nowadays seem more rounded and worldly wise. They certainly communicate better at interview.
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Yes it does on a crude measure of your level of education.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Yes it does on a crude measure of your level of education.
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Really?

If you want to view it that simply because it helps your little yogurt knitting agenda, crack on.

There's some fantastic youngsters out there, but equally, note equally, there's some very worldly wise older people who run rings around some of the bits of paper wielding younger generation. Experience counts too, or aren't you that inclusive and tolerant?

As to my level of education....I enjoy being thick.
 
Hobbit said:
Really?

If you want to view it that simply because it helps your little yogurt knitting agenda, crack on.

There's some fantastic youngsters out there, but equally, note equally, there's some very worldly wise older people who run rings around some of the bits of paper wielding younger generation. Experience counts too, or aren't you that inclusive and tolerant?

As to my level of education....I enjoy being thick.
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For a statistical measure educational attainment is defined as the highest level of education an individual has successfully completed. That's is not a yogurt knitting agenda, nothing to do with being tolerant, it is just the way they do the stats.

People can interpret it how they want, I'm not arguing about the comparison between o levels, GCSEs etc etc. The original post was a bit of statistical analysis using the standard measure of educational attainment.
 
just a thought on the coalition of chaos
isn't the correct name for the Tory party the Conservative and unionist party, so it would only be natural for this coalition to happen
 
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