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F.E.E Galway

  • 28-09-2011 01:45PM
    #1
    Phenex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Discuss these warriors of justice, GO!


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  • #2
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Phenex wrote: »
    Discuss these warriors of justice, GO!
    The who or what of Galway???????:confused:


  • #3
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    FAO of I love Joan Burton.


  • #4
    bildo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭bildo


    FEE is a badass


  • #5
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    Fee's should be brought back in. There's no way the govt can keep up paying for everyone. If fees were reintroduced it would go a long way to getting rid of the total wasters which seem to make up a significant percentage of the student population.


  • #6
    bildo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭bildo


    You're completely wrong. Reserving education soley for those with rich parents will certainly not stop eejits from going to college.
    I would argue that this is the biggest flaw in our current education system


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  • #7
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,055 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    What is [the biggest flaw in our education system]?


  • #8
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Ficheall wrote: »
    What is [the biggest flaw in our education system]?

    The students.


  • #9
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    More of the students do a better job of being students than the NUIG staff do at being NUIG staff.


  • #10
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    bildo wrote: »
    You're completely wrong. Reserving education soley for those with rich parents will certainly not stop eejits from going to college.
    I would argue that this is the biggest flaw in our current education system

    A reintroduction of fees is not equivalent to "reserving education soley for those with rich parents." My parents aren't rich and would not afford fees if they were introduced. A system like england etc where fees are paid as tax after you have graduated and are earning over a certain amount would be the best option imo. It keeps education open to everyone. If this was brought about I would say people would appreciate 3rd level more and would get rid of a lot of wasters.

    I think it was JFK that said "everyone does not have the same abilities, but they should have the same opportunities." 3rd level education is a privilege not a right.


  • #11
    Croppy Bhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 436 ✭✭Croppy Bhoy


    Reillyman wrote: »
    If this was brought about I would say people would appreciate 3rd level more and would get rid of a lot of wasters.
    Except it doesn't and wouldn't. English unis are full of wasters, virtually everybody there goes to uni apart from proper thickos/chavs and a few exceptional cases.

    Do you expect a 'waster' to sit down and think "hmm third level education does not seem like a very reliable investment since I may be prone to dropping out"? They'll go anyway, because uni is great craic.


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  • #12
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »
    Do you expect a 'waster' to sit down and think "hmm third level education does not seem like a very reliable investment since I may be prone to dropping out"? They'll go anyway, because uni is great craic.

    Fair enough but at least this way the taxpayer isn't paying for it.


  • #13
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Croppy Bhoy wrote: »
    More of the students do a better job of being students than the NUIG staff do at being NUIG staff.

    How do they manage to do that without attending lectures?

    It's rare for lectures to be cancelled, and most of my lecturers who would cancel a lecture would put it on a replacement lecture later.

    Plenty even put on revision lectures during study week.

    Take off your blinkers for a minute mate, and you'd see that lectures where over half the class is absent is both common, and demoralising for the staff.


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