I find this EXTREMELY hard to believe. It's like they've "done a Telegraph" and shifted a decimal point
"The numbers who speak Irish increased by 6pc between 2016 and 2022 to 1,873,997.
Of the people who said they could speak Irish, 623,961 spoke Irish daily within and outside the education system."
Yes, that made me smile too, but then a lot of government jobs would require Irish at some level.However actual use of the language on a daily claim they basis as tbeir first language has always been small. Its telling that after 100 years only a third of tjhe population can speak the language.
I simply don't believe a third of Irish people have a good command of Gaelic, nor that 620,000 use it daily and naturally
The only way you can reach that number is if you include everyone speaking it at school/college in Gaelic classes - and on that basis you could say 5m Brits speak French, Spanish or German daily - and maybe a few civil servants who need a few phrases
I'm an Irish speaker in a very loyalist part of Norn Iron. Back in uni I used to write to my local council annoymously and request government documents be translated to Irish which they had to do. As the only Irish speaker in the area they came to me. Basically paid for my uni. 10:25 PM · Jul 8, 2021
I believe he was at Wembley watching the mighty Owls get promoted and was then drinking Bedford dry for the next 6 hours
By contrast Wes Streeting was on another jolly to Israel, where he supports and endorses their private health insurance system where participation in a medical insurance plan is compulsory
They have this in Australia. It seems to work quite well.
It would be shit if Streeting wasn’t interested in how other countries deal with running a public health system.
You can now get into colleges like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford with just 3 Bs at A level if you are assessed as a 'disadvantaged' student who went to a state school. Cambridge doing similar
Also: both Cambridge and Oxford have been very happy to give EE offers to students who impressed enormously at interview. (And, indeed, I got a EE offer from UCL.)
Indeed but normally almost all those with such offers went on to get at least 3 As or at worst AAB and such offers are relatively rare.
We are now talking Oxbridge taking students who actually got 3 Bs at A Level. When I was at school those were the type of grades which would be borderline to get into Leeds or Nottingham, let alone Oxbridge.
I am all for encouraging more pupils from non selective state schools to apply to Oxbridge, doing practice interviews etc but I am sceptical of lowering actual entry requirements to pupils not up to the academic standard normally required. Especially if private school pupils who got 3 A grades + are rejected as a result
You can now get into colleges like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford with just 3 Bs at A level if you are assessed as a 'disadvantaged' student who went to a state school. Cambridge doing similar
At Cambridge, there has historically been a strong correlation between the proportion of state school pupils and the college's position in the Tompkin's table, with Christ's and Trinity usually topping both the proportion of state school kids and the percentage of firsts.
Edit to add: there were - of course - plenty of total imbeciles at Cambridge when I was there. People whom one was staggered had made it through A-Levels at all.
I believe he was at Wembley watching the mighty Owls get promoted and was then drinking Bedford dry for the next 6 hours
By contrast Wes Streeting was on another jolly to Israel, where he supports and endorses their private health insurance system where participation in a medical insurance plan is compulsory
They have this in Australia. It seems to work quite well.
It would be shit if Streeting wasn’t interested in how other countries deal with running a public health system.
Both Stella Creasy and Wes Streeting are attempting to threaten a doctor-led campaign exposing the network of private healthcare firms giving money to politicians.
The fact they're taking such an aggressive stance at being outed tells you exactly what type of people they are.
You can now get into colleges like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford with just 3 Bs at A level if you are assessed as a 'disadvantaged' student who went to a state school. Cambridge doing similar
At Cambridge, there has historically been a strong correlation between the proportion of state school pupils and the college's position in the Tompkin's table, with Christ's and Trinity usually topping both the proportion of state school kids and the percentage of firsts.
Edit to add: there were - of course - plenty of total imbeciles at Cambridge when I was there. People whom one was staggered had made it through A-Levels at all.
In entirely unrelated news, wasn't Kwasi Kwarteng at Trinity the same time as you were. And Suella Braverman at Queens' only a couple of years later...
Off Topic can any JDW Fans please explain how Tim Martins pubs can sell a pint of Ruddles Bitter for £1.51
Cos they squeeze the brewers till they squeak and drive down quality for the sake of price. And because it’s a bitter they can get away with the cheapest possible hopping etc.
In fairness, an odd by product is that because of the throughput Spoons cask is still often better than in brewery-tied pubs.
Like a lot of drinkers, I’m conflicted on Spoons cos the owner is a bellend* and they have a lot of ropey practices, but they are undeniably providing a social space for people who have not much disposable income but enjoy a beer.
*except that he was right to say publicly that he doesn’t demand that his staff smile and be all fake bonhomie with customers.
I believe he was at Wembley watching the mighty Owls get promoted and was then drinking Bedford dry for the next 6 hours
Chuffed to bits for Darren Moore. Always seems to be a nice guy. Treated poorly by WBA.
And by a minority of Owls fans despite his club record 96 pt total, unfortunately.
I was stood next to a DM hater yesterday turned his back as Darren came to our section of fans and refused to join in all the pro Moore chants yet loudly chanted some shit about what he would like to do to the Pope and the IRA
Nearly gave him a stiff talking to but someone else beat me to it
You can now get into colleges like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford with just 3 Bs at A level if you are assessed as a 'disadvantaged' student who went to a state school. Cambridge doing similar
At Cambridge, there has historically been a strong correlation between the proportion of state school pupils and the college's position in the Tompkin's table, with Christ's and Trinity usually topping both the proportion of state school kids and the percentage of firsts.
Edit to add: there were - of course - plenty of total imbeciles at Cambridge when I was there. People whom one was staggered had made it through A-Levels at all.
This is still my favourite Tompkins table correlation.
A graph produced by a Cambridge graduate demonstrates a striking correlation between the wine budgets of Cambridge colleges and the academic attainment of their students.
Kings, St John’s, Trinity and Jesus – the four colleges with an annual wine budget over £200,000 – all obtained more firsts than the collegiate average during the last academic year. With an annual wine expenditure of £14,033 and only 13.2% of students receiving first class degrees, Hughes Hall represents the lowest point on the graph.
King’s College is a notable outlier. Its £338,559 wine budget is the largest of any of the colleges, but it obtained markedly fewer first class degrees than some of its more frugal counterparts. The size of the college’s wine budget has already attracted negative publicity in the weeks since the college’s alcohol outlay was originally made public via a Freedom of Information request. The college’s Living Wage campaigners have adopted the slogan ‘Wages not Wine’ as the rallying cry for their protests.
Grayden Reece-Smith, a student at Churchill College from 2007 to 2010, decided to create the chart after noticing that the colleges with the highest wine budgets were also traditionally those ranked as the best academic performers by in the annual Tompkins Table.
Young people are desperately stupid, and getting stupider
There's no denying it any more
Old blokes come out with some stupid shit as well.
Liz Truss would surprise on the upside was quite special as well.
Watch that video. They are thick as shit
That's also edited "highlights". Is your daughter smarter or stupider than you were at that age?
Stupider. All of them are
Also better behaved and politer, and in some ways much nicer and kinder. I was a drunken hoon
But stupider? Absolutely. Their music is shit, their art is shit, they are incapable of original thought, the decline in human intelligence is real, and is accelerating
Early onset dementia is a terrible thing.
In some ways I say Bring it on, because witnessing the now-undeniable decline is quite painful
The time is indeed ripe for AI to take over
We had planned to move house recently, and I found a collection of old school books from when I was 13 to 17 years old. I spent a happy hour going through them, and my conclusion is that my daughter is about 18 months ahead of where I was.
I didn't do calculus until A-Level maths; she's doing it in the equivalent of the old Fourth Year (year nine). My essays - until A-Level - were woeful. She is quite able to write 800 words in proper paragraphs, and with decent structure.
They’re doing calculus in the 4th year these days? Wow, that’s impressive. Lower VI for me too, a few years behind you. I wonder when the change happened?
Off Topic can any JDW Fans please explain how Tim Martins pubs can sell a pint of Ruddles Bitter for £1.51
Mostly two reasons:
1. JDW are the largest chain of free houses in the country, so they have enormous buying power.
2. They don’t care an awful lot about what they actually buy, so they’ll pick up whatever hasn’t sold elsewhere, often with only a week or two before it expires, and at a good discount. Beer that would otherwise be given away to make steak and ale pie ready meals.
You can now get into colleges like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford with just 3 Bs at A level if you are assessed as a 'disadvantaged' student who went to a state school. Cambridge doing similar
Also: both Cambridge and Oxford have been very happy to give EE offers to students who impressed enormously at interview. (And, indeed, I got a EE offer from UCL.)
Slacker. I got a UU offer from UCL.
For those who weren’t around in the 90s, UCL would do this with groups of students with very high predicted grades. According to a prof, the actual results didn’t drop off much, if at all.
Since I’d taken 2 A levels a year early, I got a place on the spot….
Young people are desperately stupid, and getting stupider
There's no denying it any more
Old blokes come out with some stupid shit as well.
Liz Truss would surprise on the upside was quite special as well.
Watch that video. They are thick as shit
That's also edited "highlights". Is your daughter smarter or stupider than you were at that age?
Stupider. All of them are
Also better behaved and politer, and in some ways much nicer and kinder. I was a drunken hoon
But stupider? Absolutely. Their music is shit, their art is shit, they are incapable of original thought, the decline in human intelligence is real, and is accelerating
Early onset dementia is a terrible thing.
In some ways I say Bring it on, because witnessing the now-undeniable decline is quite painful
The time is indeed ripe for AI to take over
We had planned to move house recently, and I found a collection of old school books from when I was 13 to 17 years old. I spent a happy hour going through them, and my conclusion is that my daughter is about 18 months ahead of where I was.
I didn't do calculus until A-Level maths; she's doing it in the equivalent of the old Fourth Year (year nine). My essays - until A-Level - were woeful. She is quite able to write 800 words in proper paragraphs, and with decent structure.
They’re doing calculus in the 4th year these days? Wow, that’s impressive. Lower VI for me too, a few years behind you. I wonder when the change happened?
It seems to change with the winds. I did calculus as part of my O levels back in the early 80s. Yet my son sitting his GCSEs right now has no calculus even in the higher papers.
Young people are desperately stupid, and getting stupider
There's no denying it any more
Old blokes come out with some stupid shit as well.
Liz Truss would surprise on the upside was quite special as well.
Watch that video. They are thick as shit
That's also edited "highlights". Is your daughter smarter or stupider than you were at that age?
Stupider. All of them are
Also better behaved and politer, and in some ways much nicer and kinder. I was a drunken hoon
But stupider? Absolutely. Their music is shit, their art is shit, they are incapable of original thought, the decline in human intelligence is real, and is accelerating
Early onset dementia is a terrible thing.
In some ways I say Bring it on, because witnessing the now-undeniable decline is quite painful
The time is indeed ripe for AI to take over
We had planned to move house recently, and I found a collection of old school books from when I was 13 to 17 years old. I spent a happy hour going through them, and my conclusion is that my daughter is about 18 months ahead of where I was.
I didn't do calculus until A-Level maths; she's doing it in the equivalent of the old Fourth Year (year nine). My essays - until A-Level - were woeful. She is quite able to write 800 words in proper paragraphs, and with decent structure.
They’re doing calculus in the 4th year these days? Wow, that’s impressive. Lower VI for me too, a few years behind you. I wonder when the change happened?
Also Robert is in the US. So it depends on what exams his daughter is doing. Is calculus still part of the IB these days?
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It seems to work quite well.
It would be shit if Streeting wasn’t interested in how other countries deal with running a public health system.
We are now talking Oxbridge taking students who actually got 3 Bs at A Level. When I was at school those were the type of grades which would be borderline to get into Leeds or Nottingham, let alone Oxbridge.
I am all for encouraging more pupils from non selective state schools to apply to Oxbridge, doing practice interviews etc but I am sceptical of lowering actual entry requirements to pupils not up to the academic standard normally required. Especially if private school pupils who got 3 A grades + are rejected as a result
(And, fwiw, the poorer the college, the more likely you are to have lots of non-UK students to bolster your revenues.)
Both Stella Creasy and Wes Streeting are attempting to threaten a doctor-led campaign exposing the network of private healthcare firms giving money to politicians.
The fact they're taking such an aggressive stance at being outed tells you exactly what type of people they are.
I seem to remember fairly frequent comments in the past regarding Ruddles being sold cheaply because it had a short date on it.
In fairness, an odd by product is that because of the throughput Spoons cask is still often better than in brewery-tied pubs.
*except that he was right to say publicly that he doesn’t demand that his staff smile and be all fake bonhomie with customers.
I was stood next to a DM hater yesterday turned his back as Darren came to our section of fans and refused to join in all the pro Moore chants yet loudly chanted some shit about what he would like to do to the Pope and the IRA
Nearly gave him a stiff talking to but someone else beat me to it
NEW THREAD
1. JDW are the largest chain of free houses in the country, so they have enormous buying power.
2. They don’t care an awful lot about what they actually buy, so they’ll pick up whatever hasn’t sold elsewhere, often with only a week or two before it expires, and at a good discount. Beer that would otherwise be given away to make steak and ale pie ready meals.
For those who weren’t around in the 90s, UCL would do this with groups of students with very high predicted grades. According to a prof, the actual results didn’t drop off much, if at all.
Since I’d taken 2 A levels a year early, I got a place on the spot….