Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; “It’s learning from being out there in nature and experiencing things with our whole bodies, rather than just reading about it and knowing it in an intellectual way.”
Climate change: Uni degree will train future disruptors
By Teleri Glyn Jones
BBC Wales News
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Black Mountains College in Talgarth, Powys, has launched a BA in sustainable futures.
It teamed up with Cardiff Metropolitan University, the Brecon Beacons National Park and industry partners.
The college also claimed it was the world’s first dedicated entirely to climate action, responding to “the climate and ecological emergency”.
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Alison Stunt is studying horticulture at the college and said the approach was not purely intellectual: “It’s not academic in that way, it’s not learning from books.
“It’s learning from being out there in nature and experiencing things with our whole bodies, rather than just reading about it and knowing it in an intellectual way.”
Mr Rawlance admitted it was really difficult for people “who were educated in these very strict degree programmes to get our heads around” but was “obvious to young people coming up now”.
“So, this is not only urgent and necessary but it’s responding to the market. This is what the kids want.”
Black Mountains College has received more than £500,000 in lottery funding and is in the process of securing £1.5m of social investment to fund the launch of the course.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64483924
What can I say – some of the most potent magic mushrooms in the world grow on the hills of Wales. Not that I’m suggesting the school would encourage that kind of thing, of course.
Define “emergency”.
I don’t think it means what they think it means.
This sort of BS makes me ashamed to say I live in Wales.
P.S. I’m British, not Welsh.
Waste of time and money.
It figures that some fly-by-night institution like this would get involved in some dead-end project that it’s proposing. It shouldn’t lose too much sleep when it learns no one is paying any attention to such hogwash.
Another non qualification then for perverse cultists? Will they be singing Delilah?
“So, this is not only urgent and necessary but it’s responding to the market. This is what the kids want.”
Black Mountains College has received more than £500,000 in lottery funding and is in the process of securing £1.5m of social investment to fund the launch of the course.
Responding to the Market AND looking for funding?
Okay. Sure. I think the overlooked point here is that while ‘kids’ might want things, they don’t actually have any money.
Another claim I started making a few years back is that Higher Education has no real function other to keep the unemployable out of the crowded youth job market for a few more years.
They are NOT a magical source of wisdom that can be carefully tapped by the worthy in order to spread knowledge throughout the great unwashed communities. They are a business. If people are dumb enough to say “Hey, I want to do a course where I get to run around the woods naked with impressionable hippy chicks and my student loan will pay for it” then the unis are almost required to steal the free money.
I don’t really blame them. If someone was willing to give me huge piles of money for me to pass on my wisdom on procrastination, online trolling and getting easily distrac… Sorry, what were talking about?
Oh yes, I don’t really blame the unis for making easy money. I blame the establishment culture for continuing to defend the myth that Higher Learning is vital and that Universities are beyond question.
Modern colleges are rapidly becoming a compete waste of time and money.
Turn on, tune in, drop out!