MSE News: £6,000 or £9,000 uni fees? Is it an irrelevant decision?

Occams_Razor_2

melancholly wrote: »

added to list
(you can doubt my qualifications all you like - glad you feel big and important because you paid for a nice big MBA. i'm sure your personality shines through in your career)

ok ok, written on a beer coaster

Occams_Razor_2

The_One_Who wrote: »

I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but I'm going to anyway.

I have never set foot in UEA (where did I say that?), but for my subject, I wouldn't dream of going to Cambridge, its department is relatively poor. That is one example of a very good university that has a not-so-good department, but I can think of others. I have no need to boast about my university/qualification/other credentials to try to belittle another's argument.

You still haven't defined what makes an institution 'tier one' instead of 'tier two'. Or does it change annually simply based on one arbitrary ranking out of many others?

You do realise that rankings change every year, don't you? And that they tend to use very out-of-date data; that they can and do weight each category to suit their own agenda; that some of the categories don't actually mean anything; and that there really isn't any difference between one that is at position 10 and one that is at position 20?

ok, another walter mitty type. gasp, I never saw that coming

funny how blokes like you get very defensive when challenged, on what you really know, and what you have really done. and then try (clumsily) to fall back on semantics to cover your tracks.

now its all down to agenda's and conspiracy theories.

I am sure some people believe you though, so its all good.

Lokolo

Occam/s_Razor wrote: »

hang on a minute, let me get this straight.

you have a job, the same as someone who went to a good school. ok fine.

when you went to your interview, there were 6 others, also from not leading universities - is your point, that you were bracketed with others of similar backgrounds, and that proves that there is no bracketing going on?

the logic doesn't work.

not unless you are an MD at Goldman Sachs.

I might be more inclined to believe your perspective if your interview batch contained a bunch of people with Cambridge first's, but by your own admission it didn't.

Yes, we were, and none of us went to a 'prestigious' university, yet we were all qualified to do the same job as someone who went to a top 20 university, but just at a different company. I doubt that out of the 300 that applied for the job, no-one went to a top 20 university, so the fact that I (and the other 5) got chosen for the final interview process told me that it didn't matter what university you went to.

And my logic is fine thank you very much.

The_One_Who

Occam/s_Razor wrote: »

ok, another walter mitty type. gasp, I never saw that coming

funny how blokes like you get very defensive when challenged, on what you really know, and what you have really done. and then try (clumsily) to fall back on semantics to cover your tracks.

now its all down to agenda's and conspiracy theories.

I am sure some people believe you though, so its all good.

I'm not the one getting defensive.

Oh, and I'm female.

Lokolo

The_One_Who wrote: »

I'm not the one getting defensive.

Oh, and I'm female.

Are you!?!?! Damn the internet, thought you were male!

The_One_Who

Lokolo wrote: »

Are you!?!?! Damn the internet, thought you were male!

*checks* Yup, definitely female!

I'm sure we've mentioned this before. Something like you are more likely to assume someone online is your own sex (and race) to your own until it is said otherwise?

Lokolo

The_One_Who wrote: »

*checks* Yup, definitely female!

I'm sure we've mentioned this before. Something like you are more likely to assume someone online is your own sex (and race) to your own until it is said otherwise?

Most likely. I have a sieve memory!

The_One_Who

Ha! Well, if it makes you feel any better, I used to think you were female. Although now I can't think why I did!

Oldernotwiser

Occam/s_Razor wrote: »

PS. My Global top 10 MBA says I can mock it all I want. :beer:

Having an MBA (from whatever institution) doesn't make you an expert on education, as is proven by your posts.

Taiko

Also playing the bankers guard is a clear sign you're losing any argument, as established in other posts.