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[Windy]

The perception being that for Film Students you just have to sit around watching films at write a few hundred words about them? That perception is true, as any of the students on here will tell you Film Studies is the one of the most worthless degrees that one could possibly take.

At least English requires reading and the basic skills to write an intelligent essay.

[Nicholas]

Windy wrote: The perception being that for Film Students you just have to sit around watching films at write a few hundred words about them? That perception is true, as any of the students on here will tell you Film Studies is the one of the most worthless degrees that one could possibly take.


True, not only that criteria applies to film studies, every media degree you can name is in the same bubble. My Aunty has a senior role in a successful advertising agency in London and she kindly informed me that ''We ONLY take the ones with the highest possible degrees, ie. 1/2, and what do we offer? Only a job as a ''runner'' Guess what, there's hundreds and thousands doing the same as you. Frankly, you did be better off doing ''Surfing studies'' - the philosophy behind the waves, weather, health and safety and to teach the up and coming enthusiasts.

Anyhow, why is higher education so controversial? From my observation, not that I give a definition why, it's not possible to have an impeccably diverse range of independent schools with our system the Government funds, not only that we provide our share of wealth to state schools, it's the management behind the school that applies to the failure of the school itself.

I've been unfortunate to have experience a school that had ''below the societal standards'' report by an Ofsted inspection. What went wrong? The headteacher spent all the primary expenses that the Government provided on ''enhancing'' secondary agendas. Yes, a new library was built, sports hall and rejuvenating internal issues. Soon after, the expenses was forced to be cut back, new incompetent teachers were deployed all the time to keep the cost down, the collapse of management and the school was on the brink of declining into a death sprial. Now, they are struggling to keep the doors open.

I may have slightly gone off the point, but you get the expression why state education can be controversial, it's not the Government that must take the entire blame, but primarily the management and poor bureaucracy behind the scenes.