Mickey Mouse Degree
March 12th 2018
A graduate has sued Anglia Ruskin University for £60000, claiming she ended up with a “Mickey Mouse” degree that has not helped with her career (despite getting a First). Maybe a “Bob The Builder” degree would have helped her get up the ladder… However, it just goes to show that students today really need think about what degree they choose…
https://ind.pn/2Hpbnvu
MICKEY MOUSE DEGREE
SON: Mum, Dad, school have told me to start thinking about cartoon degrees for University, but I’m really not sure!
DAD: Ah, yes I’ve heard the Mickey Mouse degree doesn’t offer great value for money. Let’s have a look at the prospectus, son… how about the Flintstone’s degree in Archeology?
MUM: Or the Scrooge McDuck degree in Finance?
DAD: SpongeBob degree in Marine Biology?
SON: Oh, I don’t know. What did you do, Mum?
MUM: I did the Captain Planet degree in Environmental Studies.
DAD: (fondly…) Aaaah, She was a bit of a hippy, your Mum
MUM: All I ever wanted was to take Pollution down to Zero…
SON: How about you, Dad? You must have had qualifications to become a Police Detective?
MUM: Your Dad actually dropped out of the same Captain Planet degree as me…
SON: Really?
DAD: Yeah, thats how we met! But I did the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Module - it was a nightmare, working down there in the sewers…
MUM: And you didn’t get along with that human sized rat who was your tutor…
DAD: So I swapped to The Scooby Doo degree in Investigative Policing. Much better - solved loads of mysteries…gave me a clear career path.
SON: Wow, sounds great!
DAD: (wistfully) Yeah, there was this redhead on the course…Daphne, I think her name was…
MUM: (irritated) Errr, that’s quite enough! Let’s look at some of the others. Bob The Builder degree in Construction? Homer Simpson degree in Nuclear Science?
SON: Urrgh, Cartoon degrees certainly don’t sound as good as they were in the old days. There is far too much choice!
DAD: Too right, son. In my day, it was quality over quantity. There were only four Universities we could afford, each with a few cartoon degrees on them.
MUM: (wistfully) I used to study my Captain Planet degree in the Broom Cupboard with Philip Schofield…
SON: Excuse me?
MUM: (wistfully) Oooh, we used to study all sorts for extra credit. Dogtanion for French, Willy Fogg for Geography… Thundercats degree for summoning the ancient spirits of evil….
SON: Errrr…
DAD: Now there are thousands of cartoon degrees you can access anywhere - online degrees, streaming degrees, HD/4K degrees….
MUM: Degrees you can binge-study in ten hours….
SON: Yeah, my mate Connor has just got on the Rick and Morty degree….Aaaargh, I just don’t know what to do!
MUM: Well I wouldn’t worry, it won’t matter what you pick anyway…
SON: Why not?
MUM: You’ll still get paid 4 times as much as your sister whatever you do!
END