Do you have to wear safety sandals at work Jim?
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Glad to see my contribution to the site is being suitably appreciated.
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ours isnāt until sept - I thought I was going to be on leave, but I mixed up the dates. Iāll be reading out the names of 200 or so undergraduatesā¦ will be chairing the board that generates them for most of this afternoon
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At least you wonāt have to worry about sorting them out into different classes. Apparently theyāre all the best now.
VB
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Amazingly, they are available, even with steel toe-caps 
These are so-called safety sandals but theyāre really just safety trainers with the instep cut away.
strangely we are a bit behind the curve on this one and under perform in this regard.
The % of good degrees (1st and 2iās) is one of the metrics used for league tables and TEF, and it is one of the easier ones to manipulateā¦hardly surprisingā¦
Interestingly the release of this data coincides with information about high numbers of dropouts. I have seen a recent yet unpublished piece of work that correlates the two - the more dropouts you have, the more good degrees you award.
This is because you leave after 3 years with Ā£50K+ debt. so if focuses the mind compared to my time many years ago when I got a grant and pissed it up.
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I jumped on the scales at the weekend after cakefest, Iām now on a diet!
Hey donāt go dragging me in to itā¦whatever it is anyway, iām busy doing things.
Indeed. I never fail to be amazed at how often politicians set targets and are then shocked to find that organisations work to them.
VB
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There is certainly some truth in this. We were lucky enough to experience it without the distorting effects of time-lag because, having completed an education under the UK system just a few years previously, we went to the US where Mrs VB enrolled in an undergraduate course. She was genuinely surprised at how hard-working and demanding the US students were, quite a few of whom were either paying themselves or were being funded by their parents.
Itās a pain for employers though. The high-end ones are looking for the pick of each yearās cohort, not just for those who are capable of doing the job, so theyād sooner have a ātop 10%ā qualification rather than a ābetter than adequateā one.
VB
Still canāt reconcile the basic question as to what economic and societal benefit we are really getting from sending roughly half a million a year into higher education. I can see very clearly whatās in it for the institutions to have increased their capacity, but setting aside the debt of modern students what difference is this making to the outcomes of graduates?
Its the old ābut are there 500k graduate jobs a year out there, and of those how many really need a degree and how many have undergone pointless āprofessionalisationā?ā argument.
It may be the case that some folk lead and invest themselves within, intensely important external lives. We are however but creatures, limited and recovering if from nothing else than being borne. The pursuit of successes ābaublesā is transitory, illusory and ultimately akin to a child whistling in the wind in the grand scheme of humanity. Mr. MWS however is no shirk!, to transcend enlightened requires Olympic level discipline. To be the change you wish to see in the world whilst being a light to ones self is āthe road less traveledā. I believe this to be the singular purpose of mans striving, yearning and march toward advancement. Mr. MWS strives during his ācriticalā nap time, it is here the foundations are laid, healing expanded, sculpting a rich inner world that is a beacon to all. -A cross he bares most humbly.
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Yep, keep the prols stupid.
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Worked for you 
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I was too fick to go to uni, but ended up with a far better hifi than most of you cunts, haha.
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Picking up shit for someone who got (at least partly) a promotion on the basis of the shit that I am currently picking up not needing picked up. IMO
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Fixt 
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Only because you didnāt spend your money on an Astra.
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