People with degrees that are a bit thick really

I blame smartphones.

Everything is autocorrected these days giving people no reason to practise their grammar etc.

I've found it myself, used to be really good with punctuation / grammer a few years ago mind, now that i'm handing in assignment for uni I am pretty shocked at how my standards have fallen.
 


He sounds like a lost cause.

One thing I have recently discussed with my missus (no) is that some people may be naturals in academia, but are not suited to applying this in the real world. There were two such lecturers on my degree. Very clever, but no common sense or ability to apply the theory practically.

I believe the same can be said for some who don't take pride in their use of English.

What was your degree in and were they actively publishing in that field?
 
I've read some funny things written by colleagues over the years.

Restbite was a good one that I saw written loads by one lass instead of respite.

Best one ever was someone whinging on the company online feedback forum that had just been set up. She said that she felt like she had been made the escape goat :lol:
Poor man's Trojan Horse?
 
Maybe I’m being a bit critical as I write technical reports for a living and i know the kind of phrases that are used. But when you read things like “ Three samples was tested and here is what I saw” :lol:
Which university are they studying at? One of the main things you are told when producing degree work is not to write in the first person.
 
It's the common sense element that lacks with most. As well as that, education from my experience is largely based on theoretical nonsense which has little to no relevance in everyday life/jobs.
 
Which university are they studying at? One of the main things you are told when producing degree work is not to write in the first person.
Hartlepool college. Thing is, he Thor’d most of it and still managed to fuck up the bits he wrote himself.
 
My degree wasn’t in English, nor were my A levels. I just expect someone who’s been in the education system for 17 years to maybe have learned some basic grammar from all those years of reading text books. I can understand people who pissed about at school and left not knowing much, but 5 more years of education off their own bat and still not knowing the basics?

Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison were all dyslexics. The topics of study they chose have little or fuck all to do with English other than in your own mind.
 
What was your degree in and were they actively publishing in that field?

Civil and structural engineering. Both did have peer reviewed papers. But on both occasions, the content is theoretical and would not work in the field.

I raised a query with one (I studied part time whilst working) and the reply was both ridiculous in terms of practicality and not safe to carry out.
 
Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison were all dyslexics. The topics of study they chose have little or fuck all to do with English other than in your own mind.
He’s not dyslexic man. Just didn’t take notice in English and hasn’t bothered since.
If I was a lecturer I’d be failing papers with English like that regardless of content.
You’re supposed to leave college and get a job where you might be required to write reports. Do you think that’s acceptable?
 
Not sure how anyone mangers to get through university with poor spelling and grammar mind.
Should've gone with managers.
Mangers is a step too far :lol:

Just offererd to proof read a lad at work’s college assignment. He has a degree in automotive design, so should be pretty competent, I thought.

I thought wrong. I’m no English Professor but fuck me it looked like it was written by a child. Spelling, punctuation and grammar all over the shop. Different spellings of the same word (raiser/razor). Clunky sentence structure. I spent about 2 hours re-doing it for him.

What are they teaching kids these days when you can get a degree with a complete lack of English skills?
I had a graduate at our place once ask which way a screwdriver goes.
 
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He’s not dyslexic man. Just didn’t take notice in English and hasn’t bothered since.
If I was a lecturer I’d be failing papers with English like that regardless of content.
You’re supposed to leave college and get a job where you might be required to write reports. Do you think that’s acceptable?
A good reason why your not then. But that's a different argument about his job now being about writing reports, where I agree with you then.
 
Genuinely have a staff member with a degree in network security who doesnt understand slash notation for subnets.
If you arent in IT (or just a nerd) that might not mean much to you, if you are you will think I'm lying.
I'm not.
No point asking me how or why or anything, I've wondered myself and there is no explanation.
 

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