Simon Pegg Blasts Tory UK Government - 'F*ck the Tories'

[trekkiepetrelli]

What he said…

Kudos @simonpegg

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- Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) January 5, 2023

• Actor Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Mission Impossible Fall Out, Star Trek) took to Instagram to voice his disgust over the Tory government, specifically Rishi Sunak.
• The unelected Prime Minister of the UK, announced yesterday in a conference, that

Comments

[blood_pressures]

ummm as someone who studied math until 18 (and everyone else in my country) i don't understand all the dramatic reactions

[trekkiepetrelli]

i guess here, after high school, in college you pick which subjects you learn that are specific to your career/future. maths isn't a necessity to some people and their plans. it certainly wasn't for me, i despised maths and was glad to never worry about it again :s

[automaticpeople]

Because they’re choosing to study after 16 (since they can leave at this age), so it seems daft to force students who are choosing to further their education into studying something they don’t want to.

[howlin_wolf_66]

I would never have gone on to University if that had been the case when I were studying... but I guess that's what the Tories want from state school pupils. *shrug*

[inwazyja]

because the consensus here in the UK is that at 16-18 you choose exactly what subjects you wanna take on, what will be most valuable for you in a future career, or for your chosen University degree.

This either limits your choices or adds extra work on top of your more chosen studies. I'm not the biggest fan of that tbh.

[inwazyja]

and just to add:

I'm not always the biggest fan of the UK schooling system, for example I do wish we weren't allowed to drop as many subjects as we could in year 10-11 (so like age 14-16 roughly) because I think not many students are set on what they want to go into at the age of 14 and I def made some mistakes I regret now lol. but by the age of 16 you've had a whole year of being told to start thinking about university and those last two years are basically a preparation for that, so it makes a lot of sense to give students freedom there.

[xellabelle]

I really dislike the UK university system because you can only choose one subject, whereas in the US you can still take so many different classes.

[inwazyja]

tbh I dislike the American university system for that same reason. It feels too all over the place for me.

But the UK (and tbh European too, idk that I've heard of many, if any other countries that adapt the US system on this continent) is what I grew up with, so it's just a different mentality i guess.

[syvlie0o0]

I mean most kids who are 18-22 have no fucking clue what they want to do in life, so constricting them to only one thing seems extremely bad.

[sharo_8760]

I've studied in university in both the UK and Finland, the latter of which has an enormous amount of what we call academic freedom, aka you can sign up for courses if almost any subject. Both have their pros and cons. In the UK, I really got to focus on what I was doing and I didn't have to spend any time worrying about scheduling classes or stuff like that, and in Finland there's a lot of extra bandwidth you need for those things. I think for many students, university would be easier if you were given a timetable in the beginning at least, instead of trying to desperately find out what you're supposed to do on the first initiation days.

I think the ideal would be something in the middle - I do like that in Finland, I can study as much as I like, but on the other hand that translates into longer time spent studying and that snowballs into other problems with money and time.

[nudrive]

that's what our a-levels are for and we actually get to study our degree to a much higher level because you're not wasting time on general subject most people dgaf about.

[syvlie0o0]

You take A-levels around 16 years old, right? Maybe like 0.0000005% of 16 years olds on the planet have any idea what they want their career to be.

[nudrive]

It's not like you HAVE to decide on your degree at 16 though? You just choose 4 subjects that you like/ are good at and might like to continue studying at uni. Plenty of degrees may require a 1 or 2 specific subjects but it's pretty felxible. It's not that deep.

I'd rather actually spend all my time studying the subject I paid £9k per year to study instead of random shit I'm required to take and be able to specialise more in my 3rd year. Also to not have to pay 9k for an extra year that's just a-level material.

Also some degrees (esp STEM) you literally don't have the time for these random lectures because you have back to back lectures and labs all day with barely a break for lunch.

[nudrive]

plenty of joint degrees exist. a-levels are usually what is learned during year 1 of degrees in other countries and the lack of all the useless compulsory extra classes is why our degrees only last 3 years

[littleorcs]

I assume that makes Maths like a compulsory A Level subject? I would be so mad if I had to give up something I actually wanted to take for it... actually that's exactly what happened to me in Singapore, there was just no way around it, it was the worst and I wasn't even bad at maths

[inwazyja]

I can't actually find info on it.

But either they'd make it a 5th (and then 4th in year 13) subject, or you'd keep the 4->3 ratio but math is one of the subjects whether you like it or not.

I don't like either scenarios lol.