ICTChris Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aufc Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 So you're admitting that you have absolutely no knowledge, qualification or experience to justify your opinion? Do you have any empirical research or evidence to back up your fanciful notion that we're all skiving? At worst, we're working our contracted hours for once. He did a fucking history degree which everyone knows is a diddy degree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 I think Rita Ora should get her diddies out whilst singing We'll Meet Again bouncing on a space hopper.Make it so [emoji106] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Things that have happened in this thread: I have said that the teachers I know would far rather be in school just now teaching the way we've been trained to teach, rather than this online model we've all switched to; I have said that forcing teachers to go in over the summer, or extending the school day, should be remunerated (apparently getting paid for your work is an alien concept to some). Things that haven't happened in this thread: 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: Who is martyring them? 46 minutes ago, virginton said: Your fellow Falkirk fan and EIS flunkey, ages ago. This. I find you nowhere near as tiresome a poster as some others do, but I do think it's quite interesting the number of times you dismiss anecdotal evidence as being completely worthless, yet your viewpoint here appears to be solely "Based on the teachers I hear and see from, yes". 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Thrilled with his victory over supermarkets, VT is now going for teachers. Has he overstretched? Time will tell. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_carson Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 He did a fucking history degree which everyone knows is a diddy degree. Awh bugger, I did history as an undergrad. Does that make me as bad as him?And yes. It is a diddy degree. The fact I wrote a masters dissertation on the cultural history of sport should testify to this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 VT is a massive Tory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Seen it. Belter. Somebody probably did.* * I am not condoning violence against women Edited May 12, 2020 by Granny Danger 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 He did a fucking history degree which everyone knows is a diddy degree. Woh woh woh, calm yourself down here. It's true that arts students spend about forty mins a week in lectures but writing last minute essays and cramming in historiography without reading any actual books is not fucking easy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 (edited) 58 minutes ago, super_carson said: And yes. It is a diddy degree. The fact I wrote a masters dissertation on the cultural history of sport should testify to this. That's a YP, not a HP. If we're judging degrees based on the nonsense some people choose to focus on we are as well abolishing universities now. Actually that's a great idea. Let's tear down Oxbridge. Edited May 12, 2020 by NotThePars 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, MixuFixit said: Thrilled with his victory over supermarkets, VT is now going for teachers. Has he overstretched? Time will tell. Not confident in his declaration that teaching constitutes the biggest skive of any sector in the Scottish economy given that, as far as I know, landlords still exist but excited to see where he goes with it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Sport socks and scampi said: Without any experience in the sector ( apart for attending uni ) I'd say uni/college lecturers have a far easier teaching load and are rewarded with better holidays and pay. Nonsense 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, super_carson said: Awh bugger, I did history as an undergrad. Does that make me as bad as him? And yes. It is a diddy degree. The fact I wrote a masters dissertation on the cultural history of sport should testify to this. Being a teacher is the logic step after getting a diddy degree. Colleges turned universities are on turning people with pointless degrees into apathetic, mediocre teachers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Sport socks and scampi said: Without any experience in the sector ( apart for attending uni ) I'd say uni/college lecturers have a far easier teaching load and are rewarded with better holidays and pay. Teaching only represents about 40% of the workload of university lecturers, with the rest of the time being spent on research and associated admin. University lecturers also absolutely don't have better holidays than school teachers, and aren't necessarily paid more at a similar level of experience (ie new lecturer just finished a PhD v teacher with 3 years under their belt). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, super_carson said: Awh bugger, I did history as an undergrad. Does that make me as bad as him? And yes. It is a diddy degree. The fact I wrote a masters dissertation on the cultural history of sport should testify to this. I did theology as an undergrad with an honours dissertation on the Presbyterian Diaspora. Very much not a diddy degree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Fitting that Kincy has probably the staunchest degree you can get. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 That would depend on what their job role was and what their research interests were. 8 hours of teaching a week corresponds to anything between 12-15 hours when you consider preparation time, marking time and dealing with student emails and other silly admin tasks. I don't know a lot about accounting, but I'd guess they'd come from some sort of business or economics background and would therefore presumably be researching in that field. Alternatively, given that they said that they were off Mondays and Fridays they may have either been part time or one of a very small number of university teaching staff who are purely employed on a teaching contract, but if so their salary would have been nowhere close to what a teacher gets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 On 09/05/2020 at 09:45, Detournement said: Making international comparisons which ignore the huge pre existing differences between nations should be avoided. There are a lot tweets today comparing Iowa to South Korea in terms of deaths. Not many tweets highlighting that Iowa has 36% obesity and South Korea has 3%! That was mentioned by "MD" in Private Eye last week Basically if you want to help the NHS don't dodge salads (if only I practice what I preach..) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 15 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: Fitting that Kincy has probably the staunchest degree you can get. 36 years ago doing a dissertation on Scotland's influence world-wide (in my case through the spread of Presbyterian churches in, mostly, but not always, colonies) was seen as morally neutral. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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