During my first year of my English course (at which point I'd already been at Uni a year, if you remember) I was appalled by (a) the level of immaturity I was faced with on a daily basis, wherein 'group discussion' was an excuse to chatter mindlessly, and (b) the fact that for one of our assignments, I think it was C20th literature, we received the essay options list plus some basic essay-writing hints - including the correct usage of the apostrophe. HELLO? It's an ENGLISH degree. You'd expect ENGLISH STUDENTS to know this already.
Unfortunately, English is the kind of course which is half-populated by those students who failed to get onto their chosen course and went through clearing, because it works on an A-Level 'points' system rather than requiring, e.g. three C grades.
The fact that I'd been through the system for a year already also didn't help, as I was into the wanting-to-actually-learn mindset by the time I started the course, surrounded by children who wanted to use the time as their social life.
Britain's education system is in a horrible rut. :(
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Unfortunately, English is the kind of course which is half-populated by those students who failed to get onto their chosen course and went through clearing, because it works on an A-Level 'points' system rather than requiring, e.g. three C grades.
The fact that I'd been through the system for a year already also didn't help, as I was into the wanting-to-actually-learn mindset by the time I started the course, surrounded by children who wanted to use the time as their social life.
Britain's education system is in a horrible rut. :(