Same old song and dance

Its A-level results day. That in the media this is portrayed by:

• Cute blonde girls, jumping up and down hugging each other (because we all know boys and ugly girls dont do a-levels)

• People complaining that its all so much easier now and standards have dropped. No, wait we are all much harder working now and teachers are better. Lets just have a fistfight.

• People opening their results and saying "Oh I got 4 A's". I guess that everyone who got less probably didn't give their approval to have their results televised across the nation.

• Tut tutting about too many theatre or media studies students and not enough engineers. In fact if everyone actually followed this advice the Engineers market would become saturated and no one would hire them. Its because they are relatively scarce they are well paid.
  

Added to these old chestnuts there has been a couple of new developments:

• Its the end of the world because there are more applicants than places. There are apparently 1304 applicants per every place. Even at the Universitity of Nowhere to study Choreography and Russian studies.

• Its completely pointless to even go to uni, because you will get billions of pounds in debt and there are no jobs for you. Ever. (Because this is the first recession in history and its not like these things are cyclical or anything).

I love reading the comments on newssites about A-levels. Clearly because you got a grade D in maths in 1972, instead of getting over it you can talk about grade deflation, and youngster's not being able to read and write properly. Maybe not, but they can use the internet, MSWord and are in a prime position to take over your job.