http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281

I too found the BIHE comment a little silly too,

I did textiles there 20 odd years ago along side overseas students. It was one of the best in the world back then, not just a special school for spaccy kids. Horses for courses and all that. These ex students now own the mills we once did & Bolton no longer has the facility or machinery to train uk students.

Exactly the same with papermaking. Another fine Lancashire industry that has gone away but at the time BIHE was had a world class reputation for educating this industry as well (and with the same result ref the overseas students).

 

 

I really do get fed up with the whole miners issue. I've said before that my Dad lost his job when the cotton industry collapsed due to cheap imports and I lost my career in Engineering due to cheaper production abroad. I doubt any of the miners thought about me or my Dad when they were buying there cheap imported jeans, cars tv's etc. Scargill was looking for a political fight with an illegal strike and lost.

Thatcher didn't heed the advice but is being blamed.

Those ministers who stood their ground and argued their case well got their way. Those who couldn't cope with robust challenges to their arguments lost out - that was a good 90% of them.

Have the men of the cloth withdrawn their labour too?

I think the only thing Margaret got wrong was the poll tax, that to around 95% of the population (myself included) was a no-no and her undoing. Apart from that I was always in agreement.

 

Regarding the poll tax, when it was 'watered down' I didn't see any labour politicians campaigning for it's demise, now we have council tax which to me is a 99% waste tax.

 

Since labour got a foothold in the 90's we've had nothing but disorder, greed, inequality and no threat of discipline or punishment. And no, I'm not a Tory boy.

Slight technical point

 

David beckham studies never was or is available as a degree

 

It was only ever one module as part of a sports studies degree studying the effect he had on sports marketing etc

 

Actually one of the more academic modules on that course

 

Not that I'm saying it's a worthwhile degree, but Gumbo may beg to differ

 

As you were then

Oh hell, someone injects a bit of fact into a thread. You wouldn't even normally get that if you started a thread called INTERESTING FACTS!

I thought facts were in bold type whether copied from another website or quoted from a man down pub

No, you're mistaking facts with forum SHOUTING.

 

Facts is where you type ITK after the fact.

thought shouting was all capital letters? They never did forum etiquete at school nor how to spell etiquete

they did at Hayward apparently. Etikwet

To continue the technical point theme - it was actually media studies ...

Re David Beckham studies: as a 13year-old he was asked to write his job ambition.

 

"To be a proffesional footbaler". Spelling 60%, clearly a pass mark.

No, you're mistaking facts with forum SHOUTING.

 

Facts is where you type ITK after the fact.

 

I thought it was where you type FACT after the fact ?

they did at Hayward apparently. Etikwet

 

Heywood, shurely.

Globetrotter

 

It wasn't media studies, as I said it was sports studies

 

The module was taught by Ellis Cashmore at Staffs Uni

 

And that is a fact my friend

Jules - I am sure that Ellis did teach this as part of some sports related course but the fact is that the whole Dave B studies thing came to prominence as part of a media studies initiative. Of course i know there is no such degree available and i am sure most of our friends on here are not so influenced by what i say to think otherwise.

 

The point again, for me, is that we each do the best with the hand that we are dealt. I consider myself lucky that I had a wide range of useful choices, for todays lot I am less optimistic and I feel a little sorry for them ..

i sure wish the degree in golf was available when i left school...

 

 

i sure wish the degree in golf was available when i left school...

Golf scholarships / degrees were available in UK in the 90's