Looks like the brits are still a fine people

[HoreTore]

Norway routinely cordons off skilled professions with red tape etc to prevent such use of skilled foreign labour your unions would never allow it.

Yes....... Like how we don't have any foreign doctors, nurses, carpenters, etc etc........

And that's ignoring the fact that as a fellow EU-member, we cannot ban Brits.

What we do is demand that foreign workers are paid the same as a Norweigan worker. Are you able to name a profession we have "cordoned off"...?

So we educate them and you profit?

Don't worry, there are plenty of Norwegians looking to work in the UK as well, that's a little thing I like to call an "exchange"

[gaelic cowboy]

Yes....... Like how we don't have any foreign doctors, nurses, carpenters, etc etc........

And that's ignoring the fact that as a fellow EU-member, we cannot ban Brits.

What we do is demand that foreign workers are paid the same as a Norweigan worker. Are you able to name a profession we have "cordoned off"...?



Don't worry, there are plenty of Norwegians looking to work in the UK as well, that's a little thing I like to call an "exchange"

Eh Norway isnt in the EU

and your only covered to work in Norway's oil and gas industry unless you do Norways safety courses yet OPITO courses cover everyone else trust me I checked.

[HoreTore]

Eh Norway isnt in the EU

As far as working in Norway is concerned: yes, we are.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Don't worry, there are plenty of Norwegians looking to work in the UK as well, that's a little thing I like to call an "exchange"

So suddenly we're a fan of the free market and the free movement of labour?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

The only way to close the funding gap that is fair is to cut places and close universities. Take the bottom 20% of Uni's, close, sell off their buildings and return their funding to more worthy institutions, cut places at other Universities by 30% and you're done.

Those clever enough to get a place will, those who aren't won't. If you really want it you can keep applying until someone takes you. While we're at it, we should tripple the workload of the average undergraduate, they spend far too much time drinking and partying right now.

[gaelic cowboy]

To be honest I dont see why they couldnt just shrink all those arts degrees down to two years etc.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

To be honest I dont see why they couldnt just shrink all those arts degrees down to two years etc.

Better to double the amount in them, then I wouldn't be marking papers without basic formatting or comprehension.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Better to double the amount in them, then I wouldn't be marking papers without basic formatting or comprehension.

Actually, this is a much better suggestion. There is not even any point in writing an 800 word paper. The average essay is 2,000 words, which is also far from ideal. Heck, my dissertation is 15,000 words and I wish it was triple that to make all the points I need to.

[Rhyfelwyr]

While we're at it, we should tripple the workload of the average undergraduate.

Try it and that'll be me smashing into the Conservative offices next time!

[gaelic cowboy]

Try it and that'll be me smashing into the Conservative offices next time!

Tell me Rhyfelwyr what colour was Rachel Rileys skirt today??? bah students in arts courses have loads of time

[rory_20_uk]

When 5% go to uni it's sustainable for the government to fund it.
When 50% go to uni it's not.

That's 3 years lost taxes for those that should have jobs, and no, people are not vastly cleverer. There are just more crap degrees and teh standard for jobs is artificially raised to a BSc / BA as so many people have one.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Tell me Rhyfelwyr what colour was Rachel Rileys skirt today??? bah students in arts courses have loads of time

I was much too busy vegetating in front of my PC today, have to say I missed Countdown. And Deal or no Deal! And that funny programme they now have on BBC about the Canadian mounty that solves crimes in New York. It is so funny, I thought it couldn't get better than Doctor Sloan gliding aroud Community General in his rollerskates and telling criminals how he solves their crimes while tap-dancing with them, but this goes the extra mile.

Fair point about the degree length, the BBC did an article on just that matter recently, can't find it now though. 2 years would have been more than enough for what I've had to do.

[gaelic cowboy]

I was much too busy vegetating in front of my PC today, have to say I missed Countdown. And Deal or no Deal! And that funny programme they now have on BBC about the Canadian mounty that solves crimes in New York. It is so funny, I thought it couldn't get better than Doctor Sloan gliding aroud Community General in his rollerskates and telling criminals how he solves their crimes while tap-dancing with them, but this goes the extra mile.

Due South

Years ago RTE used show that Diagnosis Murder and I specifically remember an episode with an actual vampire in it

[Beskar]

Try it and that'll be me smashing into the Conservative offices next time!

yeah if horetore did that, you might have do the half average workload of a real degree.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Due South

Years ago RTE used show that Diagnosis Murder and I specifically remember an episode with an actual vampire in it

lol, I remember that episode as well! I always wondered what would happen if they did something like that in an otherwise reality based TV show... Dick van Dyke is the man.

yeah if horetore did that, you might have do the half average workload of a real degree.

A bit of jealousy there methinks. Anyway, I am doing real degree, at a real Uni, that will get me a real job. With a real two hours classes a week. Ha!

[gaelic cowboy]

lol, I remember that episode as well! I always wondered what would happen if they did something like that in an otherwise reality based TV show... Dick van Dyke is the man.

The Dick Van Dyke Show basically invented the sitcom that we would recocnise

[Beskar]

A bit of jealousy there methinks. Anyway, I am doing real degree, at a real Uni, that will get me a real job. With a real two hours classes a week. Ha!

'real degree' =
'real Uni' =
'real job' = I don't think KFC comes under that...

Sorry, but at the real universities, there is no two hours per week. There is 2 hours peer week per module at least, and there is usually at least 3 modules. This is no even accounting for all the pre-seminar work, readings and lectures themselves, the hours listed were just seminars. I even asked friends and family members, and they say the same in other universities. So with Oxford (1st), Cambridge (2nd), St Andrews (4th), Lancaster (6th) being accounted... It isn't jealousy, I find it insulting.

[HoreTore]

So suddenly we're a fan of the free market and the free movement of labour?

I'm against the concept of "borders" by principle, of course I'm all in favour of free movement of labour.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I'm against the concept of "borders" by principle, of course I'm all in favour of free movement of labour.

What?! I thought international capitalism and the free exchange of labour/goods is what allowed the western bourgeoisie to artificially extend their time in power, even Marx said imperialism gave capitalism a new lease on life. The decadent west thrives on the fruits of the labour of the little boy working in an Indian sweatshop!

[HoreTore]

What?! I thought

Then you should do some more thinking

[Rhyfelwyr]

Pffft what kind of leftist are you?

[HoreTore]

Pffft what kind of leftist are you?

The awesome kind.