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pardo-bsso:

--- Quote from: coppice on December 16, 2020, 03:36:23 pm ---I've worked with two people who were perfectly good employees who cracked up. One went through a period of harmless eccentricity, like wearing a kilt every day, to being a threat to other people.
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Should I worry? I started wearing those last year and so far no signs of threatening traits  :-DD

Back on topic, recently I did a couple of courses aimed at people with a university degree or higher and the bar to pass the final exam was a complete joke. I'm not the brightest bulb but they were also starting to let everyone go when I got my title some years ago.

coppice:

--- Quote from: pardo-bsso on December 17, 2020, 10:45:40 pm ---Back on topic, recently I did a couple of courses aimed at people with a university degree or higher and the bar to pass the final exam was a complete joke. I'm not the brightest bulb but they were also starting to let everyone go when I got my title some years ago.

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A serious problem with people paying the full cost of their education is they become a customer, and its very hard to expect anything of them, or fail them. As universities have expanded from a place for the wealthy or very smart to a mass market, most have followed a path of grabbing all the students they can, with little regard for ability or preparedness. You can't expect much of people like that.

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: pardo-bsso on December 17, 2020, 10:45:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on December 16, 2020, 03:36:23 pm ---I've worked with two people who were perfectly good employees who cracked up. One went through a period of harmless eccentricity, like wearing a kilt every day, to being a threat to other people.
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Should I worry? I started wearing those last year and so far no signs of threatening traits  :-DD

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Oh aye laddie? Well wait until ye've been through a hard winter wearing one and ye might ha' a new perspective on bits cracking up.  :)

pardo-bsso:

--- Quote from: coppice on December 17, 2020, 10:55:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: pardo-bsso on December 17, 2020, 10:45:40 pm ---Back on topic, recently I did a couple of courses aimed at people with a university degree or higher and the bar to pass the final exam was a complete joke. I'm not the brightest bulb but they were also starting to let everyone go when I got my title some years ago.

--- End quote ---
A serious problem with people paying the full cost of their education is they become a customer, and its very hard to expect anything of them, or fail them. As universities have expanded from a place for the wealthy or very smart to a mass market, most have followed a path of grabbing all the students they can, with little regard for ability or preparedness. You can't expect much of people like that.

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Sad thing is, education here is `free` and our universities are still regarded as high quality on a global level (albeit ranking lower).
You can find excellence and and attitude towards that but overall the trend is not going that way.

pardo-bsso:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on December 17, 2020, 11:11:06 pm ---Oh aye laddie? Well wait until ye've been through a hard winter wearing one and ye might ha' a new perspective on bits cracking up.  :)

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Your winters are certainly colder than ours but I can't wait for it to come.
Last week we had temps around 30°C (86°F) in the shadow. At morning. And summer is just starting.

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