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sarausa

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  1. Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management.

     

    Sounds fairly impressive doesn't it? However they taught me nothing that I have needed to know during my three years in industry, aside from stuff I would have picked up inside a month working in it, and stuff which is obsolete. Instead they just coax you through the loosely related assignments, striving to get good results at whatever cost in order to maintain/increase their budgets, and probably with an eye on a personal bonus/rise for themselves.

     

    What a degree does illustrate is a work ethic and the ability to apply oneself. For me the classifications are indications more of effort than ability. Near enough anybody could get a first, after all, all you have to do is hand in a draft assignment which will be marked and given back to you with fairly detailed information on how to improve it!

     

    My thought is that anybody with such a work ethic could go out into the world and make something for themselves, as opposed to for their boss, who probably hasn’t got a degree, and is away on holiday. I suppose many like to take the safe option, and see £50k a year and 25 days holiday up until 65 as their pinnacle.

     

    Of course highly skilled and vocational degrees, such as rudemedics, are invaluable. But then they aren’t taught like the majority of others are. Why? Because that would be grossly insufficient.

     

    Amen.

     

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