UK: what’s the point in being young, brilliant & graduated?
Translated by Laurent Delpit. See the original article in English
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THE BEST OF 2010: post published on September 7:
According to a news report by BBC, A Levels pupils scored another record-breaking year of results. A good news that obviously has one huge drawback: less places in universities. Out of the 660,000 applicants, only 380,000 have now got confirmed places at university. While the official figures show cleverer and cleverer students, our UK blogger RantinRab, is very critical of the UK educational system: a failure he attributes to the former Labour government. This post is all the more ironic in the light of the recent demonstrations against the Tuition Fees Reform.
A-Level results, 2010 | Photo by HammersmithandFulham, under a CC license
It’s official. Britain is cleverer than last year. And last year we were cleverer than the year before. And the year before that…. well, you get the picture.
So, if our kids are achieving record results every year why is it that with each new crop of bright young things that start their working career at my place of employment seem dumber than the last?
Usually they are at university and work part time to keep them in beer and fags. I have the misfortune to encounter them when I start on the night shift as they, being part time, are on the backshift.
I can honestly say, hand on heart, that as each year passes the youngsters that flood onto the job market get dumber and dumber as well as lazier and lazier.
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