Students

[basil]

Thinking aloud, how many students attend the beaconside campus?.........

Going off stereotype - About half of them!

I'm here all week!

I'm here all weak!.......

 

[John Marwood]

Each time i have been to the Stafford Poly..erm, i mean Beaconside campus, i have noticed a particularly high ratio of male to female students. Is this tragedy due to the nature of the ( computer based? ) courses...?

 

[Jade-clothing]

p.s. pm me if you don't want it to be common knowledge

There are quite a few houses on weston road - particularly the Littleworth end and the small streets that go off weston road around Littleworth behind the church and on Corporation street xx

 

[Toble]

Oh I love students. I love their optimism. I too believed all that stuff about education during my time studying (drinking).
Even after I left as a student and started working there (it was the only job I could get) I still loved them. They were like cute little blind puppies about to be let out on to the four lane dual carriageway of life.
Some would survive and do really well. Most end up doing menial jobs for a pittance.
My favourite story is of a bloke who got a a First in some sort of CGI TV course. He got a job with the BBC and expected to be some sort of director. After 3 months of getting coffee for people he quit to work in a Burger King.

Of course, the best example of failure is that bloke with the degree who spends his working nights dealing with drunken students on the phone. Oh. Me, I guess.

 

[John Marwood]

u aint no failure

its more about expectation and reality

 

[tek-monkey]

Each time i have been to the Stafford Poly..erm, i mean Beaconside campus, i have noticed a particularly high ratio of male to female students. Is this tragedy due to the nature of the ( computer based? ) courses...?

Its better now than it has been for years, when they made it a uni they shifted all the female biased courses to stoke and left Stafford with computing/engineering. On my course there were over 300 students, and only about a dozen were female. And to be honest only 3 of them were hot, but the others got lots of attention too because it was that or travel to Stoke! Luckily I'd already got a girlfriend before starting, because most of my mates had a fairly frustrating few years!

 

[Wormella]

It's not that much better in reality - they shifted nursing back there a little while ago to help the balance, so now it looks better on paper but the reality is a little different.

When I was a student the ratio was 8-1, and I think it's a tiny bit better now.

 

[shoes]

Oh I love students. I love their optimism. I too believed all that stuff about education during my time studying (drinking).
Even after I left as a student and started working there (it was the only job I could get) I still loved them. They were like cute little blind puppies about to be let out on to the four lane dual carriageway of life.
Some would survive and do really well. Most end up doing menial jobs for a pittance.
My favourite story is of a bloke who got a a First in some sort of CGI TV course. He got a job with the BBC and expected to be some sort of director. After 3 months of getting coffee for people he quit to work in a Burger King.

Of course, the best example of failure is that bloke with the degree who spends his working nights dealing with drunken students on the phone. Oh. Me, I guess.

Surely at university they teach you how to sell yourself and how to make use of your degree in the real world, or is it a case of there's your BSc (or whatever), now piss off?

 

[zebidee]

You have to be proactive in getting that help Shoes, they don't give it you as part of your course unfortunately, you need to seek out student services, careers service, placements etc. Unfortunately at many a uni there's a ton of students who don't ever set foot in those parts of the campus!

 

[shoes]

I see, that's a shame really, especially after you've spent many years studying (drinking?) for a high end qualification. I suppose you can take a horse to water! I think at least something to do with getting yourself 'out there', as it were, should be a mandatory part of any course. I can totally understand that it is possible to gain a degree in a qualification but have no idea how to attack the industry or how to make use of it in a self employed situation. It would, perhaps, be the most important module of the degree ultimately.

I'm very interested in watching a certain proof reader / essay writing tutor develop her own business after study - primarily so I can see how it's done ready for when I complete my degree (presuming I haven't died of old age by the time I complete it!).

 

[zebidee]

Haha right dude! Not your typical graduate here, but do catch me at the PIE club

It may well be that some courses do give that sort of support, but from what I've seen so far it's almost entirely in the student's own hands. When I was at uni (though not at Stafford) the careers fair was always busy, but a large proportion were international post-graduate students. The UK students would wander round but not with quite so much determination. Hmm, interesting commentary to draw from that eh?

 

[shoes]

Not touching that with a barge pole! Have made my feelings on the British work ethic very clear in the past - not wishing to revisit it!

Will certainly catch you at the PIE club, the last two have been great, so you lot won't be getting rid of me any time soon


Back on topic though, I bet you'll find loads of students around the town at about 3am on a wednesday morning, try flyering then!

 

[zebidee]

/shoes baiting

 

[shoes]

/shoes baiting

Hmmm gives me a photoshop idea....

 

[shoes]

/shoes baiting