| Re: I'm waiting, Dr. Gastrich |
Tadex Niejadex |
| Piorokrat (piorokrat@autograf.pl) |
2003/12/31 07:24 |
Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
From: "Piorokrat" <piorokrat@autograf.pl>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.uncle-davey
Subject: Re: I'm waiting, Dr. Gastrich
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:24:18 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Tadex Niejadex
Lines: 51
Sender: root@darwin.ediacara.org
Approved: robomod@ediacara.org
Message-ID: <bsum4a$r5i$1@news.onet.pl>
References: <3fecfda8$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com> <R87Hb.244889$Ec1.8531733@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <mr7Hb.29388$nG3.1925@twister.socal.rr.com> <bsjv3q$di0$0@pita.alt.net> <3fedb049$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com> <bsl3dr$2q1$0@pita.alt.net> <3fee1501$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com> <bsmpgi$5t1$0@pita.alt.net> <egutuvoar6u6648qkb6jtkp38q2ota36vs@4ax.com> <bsn0vr$jnt$0@pita.alt.net> <bsn28a$ejv9n$1@ID-35161.news.uni-berlin.de> <bsq8ia$l8t$0@pita.alt.net> <Ae2Ib.14537$IM3.12769@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net> <vv1dgn31331692@corp.supernews.com> <bsqf16$1fn$0@pita.alt.net> <1lwx5tei0l8h0.1p84epohe9yts$.dlg@40tude.net> <bsrrld$3gp$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl> <121i485k4djlo.n9ke531117xg.dlg@40tude.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: darwin
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: darwin.ediacara.org 1072880658 99855 128.100.83.246 (31 Dec 2003 14:24:18 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@darwin.ediacara.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:24:18 +0000 (UTC)
X-Warning: Original message contained 8-bit characters, however duringthe SMTP transport session the receiving system was unable to
X-Warning: We ASSUME it is less harmful to add the MIME headers, andconvert the text to Quoted-Printable, than not to do so,
X-Warning: We don't know what character set the user used, thus we had towrite these MIME-headers with our local system default value.
Fake-Sender: piorokrat@autograf.pl@cq121.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cq121.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by darwin.ediacara.org id hBVEOBmN099845
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.fan.uncle-davey:1527
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:36:17 +0000 (UTC), Uncle Davey wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > The Masters degree is given for graduates of Oxbridge to reflect the
> > superiority of the study for a normal BA at Oxbridge over the BA at any
> > other University.
>
> I think that graduates of a number of other Universities, eg Durham etc.
> would disagree. Some Scottish 4 year degrees also give an MA, by the way,
> but they get that when they graduate instead of a BA, unlike the situation
> at Oxford and Cambridge where they have to wait.
>
> It may well be that there are courses at Oxford and Cambridge that are the
> best in the UK. I am equally sure that there are subjects in which there
> are better places to go than Oxford or Cambridge. I think you are
> generalising too much.
>
> In addition, you're wrong about the reason for giving the MA to Oxford and
> Cambridge graduates. Its primary purpose is to make them full members of
> the University. During a discussion a few years ago about abolishing
them,
> the president of Magdalen College referred to them as simply an
> 'organisational tool'. They are required for voting in convocation, which
> is why in the past they were also sometimes given to Oxbridge staff.
>
> You
>
All I can say about that is the reasons given to me.
I don't deny that some schools can be better than Oxbridge.
If you want to learn Bantu, don't go to Oxford or Cambridge, go to SOAS.
If you want to do a degree in accountancy, forget about Oxbridge. Go to any
redbrick, or even polyversity.
If you want an MBA, apparently Cambridge has a really good one now. It was
my old tutor, Jeff Warren, who came in from industry and set it up.
But if I were gonna do an MBA, I would be really tempted to do Ashridge.
I could be at me Mam and Dad's for dinner every day. *smacking lips*
Uncle Davey
|
|
|