University drop in standards: solution #1
Quite simply this: make every single student that applies for university in Great Britain take the English test that international students have to take. Without a shadow of a doubt this will remove a good deal (probably up to and beyond 15%) of the non-university material chaff who don't really want to be in university in the first place, and not only that, it will mean people like me will be able to sit in English lectures and not have lecturers have to explain how to structure a sentence properly.
Am I angry? A little bit.
- Angry that my degree is devalued by the government's quite ridiculous 50% in higher-education policy.
- Angry that I have to pay over three thousand pounds a year for the privilage.
- Angry that I am paying interest on my loans through the back door due to the government's refusal to match loan interest with inflation.
More than this, I am angry that a good friend of mine, whose English is far, FAR better than most of my peers, had to sit an English exam to come to university here when natural-born English speakers get in without the quite obvious requirement of having a good grasp of the English language!
It's a farce I tell you!