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Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable

Posted by kdawson on from the want-fries-with-that dept.

digitalhermit writes "A C student (not the programming language) has sued her former school because she has been unable to find a job in the three months since her graduation. Yup, some schools are degree mills, but this just seems... bizarre."

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  1. Re:What's a C student at Monroe College? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For UK folks, it's equivalent to a low 2:2, and approaches a third.

  2. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon by niklask · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, unemployment is up here, in that part of europe with the highest education (Scandinavia), why we're at above 2% now, which is a lot more than the comfortable 0.8% we used to enjoy prior to the current crisis.

    Apparently you have no connection with reality what so ever
    Norway ~3%
    Sweden ~9%
    Denmark ~5%
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate How you get this to 2% for "Scandinavia" is beyond me. And remember that Norway has a fairly low unemployment due it that thing called oil.

  3. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon by Sapphon · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Economist's latest figures have the unemployement rate at 9.8% Sweden, 3.8% Denmark and 3.1% Norway. Sweden's rate is not seasonally adjusted.

    Where are your 2% figures from?

    Anyone wishing to actually do a proper comparison of unemployment and education should probably look at Eurostat's Unemployment rates of the population aged 25-64 by level of education (at least for Europe).

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  4. Re:Depressing, but not uncommon by xaxa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Standard in the US is 10 days, to start. If you're lucky that'll build up to 15-20 in few years.

    Minimum in the UK is 28 days (that includes the 8 public holidays, so it's 20 days if you aren't required to work on those days).

    At a lot of places if you get sick, your sick days come out of your vacation time.

    That's illegal here.