Is University Really Worth It? overview, writes ROLAND WHITE
Is University Really Worth It?
You will probably be delighted to be taught that robots will not be taking up the world any time quickly. They can scarcely handle a half-intelligent dialog.
Comedian Geoff Norcott visited a Cornish tech firm and met a humanoid known as Ameca for his investigation Is University Really Worth It? (BBC2). She turned out to be a little bit of a flirt.
Ameca: ‘You’re in a playful temper.’ (Geoff had remarked on her eyebrows.)
Geoff: ‘Why do you suppose I’m in a playful temper?’
Ameca: ‘Ah, you are talking Welsh. That’s a stunning language.’ (Flirty, if barely patronising).
Comedian Geoff Norcott visited a Cornish tech firm and met a humanoid known as Ameca for his investigation Is University Really Worth It?
Geoff had no drawback to find disgruntled college students, and joined a protest march in help of hanging lecturers
Londoner Geoff was clearly doing nothing of the sort, and Ameca had the grace to look embarrassed. She seems to have been fitted with Ricky Gervais’s smile — you understand, the marginally shifty one.
You’d suppose anyone working with Ameca can be the product of a prime college, however Geoff found that the corporate’s chief software program engineer joined straight from faculty.
By this stage, college vice-chancellors should have been fearing for his or her six-figure salaries as a result of for a lot of the programme, fashionable college life regarded fairly terrible.
Geoff had no drawback to find disgruntled college students, and joined a protest march in help of hanging lecturers. ‘I’m probably not a strikes and protest sort of a man,’ he mentioned, as he held up the site visitors in Brighton.
Geoff is a right-of-centre comic, such a rarity that he ought to most likely be displayed on the Natural History Museum.
He met an artwork graduate who desires her a refund from a London school. She was at college throughout lockdown, and spent most of her time at residence in her bed room.
At least she’ll have had sufficient to eat. Geoff went buying with a medical scholar who has to outlive on a meals price range of £10 per week. Very depressing it regarded too.
He did discover some children who had been having fun with themselves, however scholar social life is not what it was. At Sheffield, he met members of the Duck Society. There had been about 20 of them, standing by a pond and feeding the geese.
‘It’s a strategy to socialise with out spending any cash,’ one scholar defined. Hardly the Bullingdon, is it? If issues get any worse, the geese will probably be tossing bread to the scholars.
There are additionally query marks over tutorial achievement. In an encounter that regarded like a spy drama, Geoff met a whistleblowing artwork lecturer who’d been instructed by no means to fail anyone, although 25 per cent of her college students deserved it.
University schooling is meant to function in a market, Geoff famous, but it surely’s truly extra of a automotive boot sale.
If I used to be fascinated by college as I watched this, I’d rip up my software and turn into a plumber as an alternative. You can earn about £60,000 a yr, and — as Geoff found as a short lived apprentice in Hull — it is far more enjoyable than feeding geese.
