It says universities must also embed employability skills in all degree courses and introduce a new Higher Education Achievement Report awarded alongside a degree certificate to provide employers with more information about graduates. .... Unfortunately, as the current primary and secondary education system often poorly prepares students for university study, and because there is a finite potential percentage of students who are born with the intellectual gifts needed for ...

All I can say is that if such wretched and knowing sabotage of the education system took place here in the Republic of Ireland, there would be a national outcry. I served a rigorous, though thoroughly enjoyable stint at Primary School, followed by an even more ... The average electrician or gas engineer for example takes considerably longer to train than most university graduates do to gain a degree.And a degree in what?Quite often media studies or some such nonsense. ...

This generally revolting, unfair and wasteful welfare system does immense damage at vast cost, subsidising bad decisions, destroying rigour in education, and encouraging people to do the wrong thing in their adult lives. ..... I've found Jenni Russel's article (commentary rather than news) which is unfortunately reference-free meaning I'm going to have to dig up the actual primary sources myself to see whether or not I agree with her representation of them. ...

The focus in the current study is programs offering the Master's degree, in particular programs offering the Master's of Art (M.A.). This focus came about for two reasons. First, the argument that graduate education tells us most about .... It states that "The Department of Sociology and Criminology offers a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy degree program in both Sociology and Criminology. The primary focus of the program is the preparation of members of the next ...