Certainly we are singing from the same hymn sheet.
You will be interested to see how your relatives perform during the forthcoming strike of doctors in the NHS.
What did become of the professions' hypocratic oath? - a rhetorical question.
I used to be a course admissions tutor, for my sins, with absolute discretion about who entered the course; that wouldn't happen nowadays - a computer programme and an administrator will do that nowadays with no discretion or attention to anything other than the outputs of that programme.
I also spent an amount of time placing students with appropriate employers in industrial placements, including placing Brit students with German companies; the latter was a revelation, even 30 years ago.
When everyone has a degree then they are pretty much worth?
Meanwhile, here we are in the UK treating kids as adults while treating the adults as kids.
Back at the global warming bit of the pub:
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/...dummies-again/
ps
Yes, I am aware of the OU charges; they are why my relatives are packing it in after their current studies and it is but one reason why blogs have added value.
There are free courses online nowadays, usually offered by USA based universities - I haven't got my head around why they do this, other than as a loss leader toward Masters courses (everyone has a first degree, absolutely everyone).