I remember how it was -- JR
Monday, May 30, 2022
Eight British universities under investigation for giving students useless businress degrees
Business degrees are mostly BS so this is about time
Eight universities are under investigation by the higher education watchdog for offering poor quality degrees. The institutions will now be investigated by the Office for Students (OfS), which could result in fines being issued or student loan funding being withdrawn.
It is the first time that the regulator has dispatched inspectors to universities to inspect the quality of courses and comes amid mounting concern that students are not getting value for money.
Degrees with high drop-out rates and low levels of graduate employment are being targeted by the OfS for scrutiny, as well as those which are substituting face-to-face learning with substandard online classes.
All the courses under investigation are business and management degrees, five of which have a dropout rate of more than 40 per cent.
The investigation could result in these courses being barred from receiving student loan funding, which would most likely render them financially unviable.
Whitehall officials are concerned at the cost to the taxpayer of the increasing number of pupils who take up a place at university, but fail to earn enough to pay back their student loan.
Ministers have been particularly critical of so-called “Mickey Mouse” degrees, which saddle students with debt but add little to their job prospects. They have previously accused universities of running “threadbare” courses in a rush to get “bums on seats”.
Michelle Donelan, the universities minister, told The Telegraph it is “completely wrong” to think that simply sending more students to university will help boost social mobility.
“There is an undeniable link between quality and social mobility. We need to ensure [students] can choose a course and it will lead them on to a good outcome. That is real social mobility,” she said.
“For too long, we have got obsessed with the idea if you get people to university, that is a social mobility job done, whereas that is completely wrong. It is lazy social mobility.
“Real social mobility is about getting them to complete their course and getting them into a graduate job that they wouldn’t have done had they not done this course.”
Ms Donelan said that this is just the first wave of university course inspections and that more will follow in June and July.
Inspectors will consider the effectiveness of course teaching and students’ contact hours, as well as if students receive “sufficient” learning resources and academic support, with experienced academics leading the inspections.
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Now We Have Teachers Asking Students How Comfortable They Are About Graphic Sex Acts
Okay, I mean what is going on here? As if things can’t get any worse in our schools regarding all this woke nonsense and critical race theory fraud in the curriculum, we have graphic questions about the level of comfortability regarding sexual activity. Was this survey given to little kids? No, not this time at least. It was high schoolers, but still—what are we doing here giving these so-called educators a pass if they’re asking students how comfortable they are with anal sex. Are parents okay with them asking their kids about their masturbation preferences because that was also on the sheet? In Canada, an equally graphic survey was given to kindergartners.
Libs of Tik Tok was there to uncover this madness:
Students at Campolino High School in California were reportedly given an invasive and inappropriate sex lesson which included questions about their anal sex and masturbation preferences.
In this worksheet, students were asked to rate their comfort level with anal sex. Presumably, these written responses were turned in by each student, so the school now has their anal sex preferences on file.
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Students were also asked if they like to masturbate with others in the room.
Libs of TikTok spoke with a parent who expressed horror that a school would be collecting such information from a teenager. The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told us the school didn’t want parents to see the material.
Nothing wrong with talking about masturbation in a high school health class, but lines are crossed when you ask kids if they like to do it in front of others. Who wrote that question? Louis C.K.? And the schools know they’re crossing the line again of course. It just amazes me that these clowns dole out tons of graphic surveys and hope no parent will ever see it. In the social media age, nothing remains secret for long.
Libs of Tik Tok added that this school also hands out “trans tape” so girls can tape their chests. Boys are also given the tape for “tucking” as well. Republicans have a massive opportunity here with swaths of suburban parents who could move these areas back into play, but they can’t overreach. These are moderates politically. No hardcore MAGA stuff, sadly—but returning common sense to the classroom sells. It worked in Virginia. It can work in the Philly suburbs and other areas where national elections are decided.
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Australia: A high school has come under fire for showing students a video that discussed pornography in such graphic detail that some students walked out
Wadalba Community School on the Central Coast in NSW was conducting the monthly year 10 assembly on Monday when without warning, students were shown a TEDx Talk on video by sexual health expert Ran Gavrieli entitled 'Why I stopped watching porn'.
The video sees Gavrieli discuss different types of online pornography online to try and understand the question, 'What would porn deem as sexual?'
In the talk Mr Gavrieli claimed it was 'whatever men find arousing'.
'If men find it arousing to choke a woman, to have brutal sex without one touch, hug, kiss, tender caress? Well, then it is sexual,' Mr Gavrieli said in the video.
'It arouses men to see a woman or a child cry? It is sexual. It arouses men to rape a woman? Well, then it is sexual.'
In attempting to explain the aim of cameras in pornography, Mr Gavrieli added 'porn cameras have no interest in capturing any normal sensual activities such as petting, caressing, making out, touching, hugging, kissing – no, what porn cameras are into is the penetration.'
This video - reportedly shown without warning or context - caught a number of students aged between 14 and 15 off guard and even left some students in tears as a result, reported the Daily Telegraph.
One 14-year-old student claimed that she had been a victim of rape at a party earlier this year and that the graphic detailed descriptions of porn, in particular rape, had been were 'triggering'.
'I went to the bathroom straight after because I was throwing up,' she said. 'They could have at least separated the girls and boys or given a trigger warning especially while talking about rape.'
Another eight girls are understood to have walked out.
The school's principal Melinda Brown has subsequently written to parents to 'unreservedly apologise' for the incident and admitted the lesson breached Department of Education guidelines.
'I apologise unreservedly for this lesson going ahead without first informing you and providing you with the option to remove your child from this lesson,' Ms Brown wrote.
'I want to assure you the incident does not reflect the high standards and care of students that Wadalba Community School upholds at all other times.
A spokesperson for the department stated that 'the school did not follow Department policy and the incident does not reflect the high standards required by the Department.'
'The matter has been referred to the Department's Professional and Ethical Standards Directorate for investigation.'
'The Department apologises unreservedly for any distress caused and counselling is being offered to the students involved.'
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