Surely the teachers have a duty of care over their pupils and as such should be partly reponsible for their pupils actions - they are supervising them surely?
This does all smack of heavy-handedness though, these are children we are talking about, what purpose will criminalising their pranks serve?
Laurence
(very glad he lives in a liberal european country - despite the best efforts of the government)
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I just love the way they had to point out it was fictional. I'm sure the litigious culture in the states never harmed anyone...
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... as everyone who's been there knows, it's all about how much alcohol you can drink!
But seriously, I'm currently studying Software Engineering at a well respected (they obviously looked at the research rather than the teaching quality) english university, and it's all a load of complete tripe. After a year if unchallenging, rarely interesting material I really can't see the point in being there (except to enjoy the social life). After all a GCSE level (16 year old exam) statistics class is really gong to help me after two maths 'A' levels (18 year old exam).
Believing that the lecture classes of 200 without any tutorial support(at least then someone would know how easy the material was) is useful is also a big mistake (although vaguely understandable given the chronic underfunding of UK Higher Education).
Yes I will probably get a first with little effort and I certainly enjoy the social life, but I'm sure I should have been challenged somewhere along the line.
I think the problem you'll find is that you livein too large a country. Move to europe, with it's higher population density and greater mobile phone penetration (about 60-70% in UK) coverage is much much better (the silly analogue systems are being switched off soon).
All incoming calls are free (caller pays a higher rate to phone you).
Move to a country with proper amenities;-)
Laurence
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This does all smack of heavy-handedness though, these are children we are talking about, what purpose will criminalising their pranks serve? Laurence (very glad he lives in a liberal european country - despite the best efforts of the government)
But seriously, I'm currently studying Software Engineering at a well respected (they obviously looked at the research rather than the teaching quality) english university, and it's all a load of complete tripe. After a year if unchallenging, rarely interesting material I really can't see the point in being there (except to enjoy the social life). After all a GCSE level (16 year old exam) statistics class is really gong to help me after two maths 'A' levels (18 year old exam).
Believing that the lecture classes of 200 without any tutorial support(at least then someone would know how easy the material was) is useful is also a big mistake (although vaguely understandable given the chronic underfunding of UK Higher Education). Yes I will probably get a first with little effort and I certainly enjoy the social life, but I'm sure I should have been challenged somewhere along the line.
Don't believe what they say in the prospectus!
Laurence
I think the problem you'll find is that you livein too large a country. Move to europe, with it's higher population density and greater mobile phone penetration (about 60-70% in UK) coverage is much much better (the silly analogue systems are being switched off soon). All incoming calls are free (caller pays a higher rate to phone you). Move to a country with proper amenities ;-)
Laurence