Are degrees in the UK value for money?

economic

GreatApe wrote: »

If your degree was so fantastic for you why are you still in credit card debts in your late 30s?

I was wondering the exact same thing. In credit card debt for a whilst now (no credit card company is offering 0% credit for that long) so clearly Mr Windy can not afford to pay it back. Being in that position in your 30s (late 30s??) surely is a failure somewhere. Question is, is it Mr Windy's incompetence or did the education system fail him (a system which he seems to continue to rely on given his MSc at UCL)?

But hey, look on the bright side for Mr Windy, he will be debt free by xmas 2017! Will be a very merry xmas for Mr Windy indeed.

Andy_L

economic wrote: »

What does Somme mean?

The script works for me fine. Not sure what error you seem to think there is?

a predictive text typo, should be some.

Cynic that I am I was suspecting that you'd put a deliberate error in there to catch out anyone who could be bothered to write pseudocode

economic

Windofchange wrote: »

I guess you just are, I'm sure nobody here will have any differing opinions. Hope somebody helps you with your python homework soon.

I might need some help actually. Since Python is very basic for anyone that can read, can you please help me with the question i asked about the script i posted? thanks for your help.

economic

Andy_L wrote: »

a predictive text typo, should be some.

Cynic that I am I was suspecting that you'd put a deliberate error in there to catch out anyone who could be bothered to write pseudocode

No i said it was a basic script. It works perfectly fine. Since some on here think Python is easy and anyone who can read English can do it, i would like those same people to explain the script in pseudocode.

Andy_L

economic wrote: »

No i said it was a basic script. It works perfectly fine. Since some on here think Python is easy and anyone who can read English can do it, i would like those same people to explain the script in pseudocode.

I don't think anyone said that except you.

economic

Andy_L wrote: »

I don't think anyone said that except you.

Then you need to think more - look at post #1355.

Whats funny about post 1355 is that the person who wrote it thinks Python is a piece of equipment. Hahahahahahaahahahahaha

GreatApe

economic wrote: »

I was wondering the exact same thing. In credit card debt for a whilst now (no credit card company is offering 0% credit for that long) so clearly Mr Windy can not afford to pay it back. Being in that position in your 30s (late 30s??) surely is a failure somewhere. Question is, is it Mr Windy's incompetence or did the education system fail him (a system which he seems to continue to rely on given his MSc at UCL)?

But hey, look on the bright side for Mr Windy, he will be debt free by xmas 2017! Will be a very merry xmas for Mr Windy indeed.

I'm not trying to make him feel bad or belittle him

Its just his stories don't add up
He claimed he is £200-300k better off thanks to his degree he got 15 years ago yet he is in credit card debts in his late 30s

A generation ago people in their late 30s typically were married had kids and were homeowners and had no other debt but the mortgage. There were of course still nurses and middle management sure they didn't have degrees but it wasn't and isn't necessary.

A person with 100 IQ should start working age 16
It makes no sense to lecture then until age 21/22 and saddle them with £60-80k of debt and 5-6 years of lost income. We are a poorer nation with higher taxes and lower services all because we want to pretend kids today are so much smarter than their parents that they deserve a degree while their parents got on fine with just 5 O-Levels

economic

GreatApe wrote: »

I'm not trying to make him feel bad or belittle him

Its just his stories don't add up
He claimed he is £200-300k better off thanks to his degree he got 15 years ago yet he is in credit card debts in his late 30s

A generation ago people in their late 30s typically were married had kids and were homeowners and had no other debt but the mortgage. There were of course still nurses and middle management sure they didn't have degrees but it wasn't and isn't necessary.

A person with 100 IQ should start working age 16
It makes no sense to lecture then until age 21/22 and saddle them with £60-80k of debt and 5-6 years of lost income. We are a poorer nation with higher taxes and lower services all because we want to pretend kids today are so much smarter than their parents that they deserve a degree while their parents got on fine with just 5 O-Levels

What is the 200k-300k better off mean exactly? Is that the sum of all his gross salaries every year since he graduated? On average at most that would amount to £20k, hardly worth the degree given average grad salaries.

If it means additional pay compared to if he did not do a degree then that's different. It would help to to know what he means by 300k better off.

Crashy_Time

economic wrote: »

I was wondering the exact same thing. In credit card debt for a whilst now (no credit card company is offering 0% credit for that long) so clearly Mr Windy can not afford to pay it back. Being in that position in your 30s (late 30s??) surely is a failure somewhere. Question is, is it Mr Windy's incompetence or did the education system fail him (a system which he seems to continue to rely on given his MSc at UCL)?

But hey, look on the bright side for Mr Windy, he will be debt free by xmas 2017! Will be a very merry xmas for Mr Windy indeed.

You bought back into the London Mega Bubble, you have potentially a lot more to lose than someone with some credit card debt :rotfl:

economic

Crashy_Time wrote: »

You bought back into the London Mega Bubble, you have potentially a lot more to lose than someone with some credit card debt :rotfl:

Wrong thread mate, please start a new one titled "London Housing market will Pop version 484758758".