Friday 22 March 2019

Generation Snowflake...

A poll of almost 38,000 UK students suggests rates of psychological distress and illness are on the rise in universities, with “alarmingly high” levels of anxiety, loneliness, substance misuse and thoughts of self-harm.
Oh no! This is serious!

*reads further*
The findings were based on responses from a self-selecting sample of students who took part in an online survey.
*shrugs*

*turns the page*

5 comments:

ivan said...

There is a bright side to this - it shows that Tony Bliar was wrong with his edukation, educashon, education, the universities are full of snowflakes that shouldn't be there.

Anonymous said...

The only conclusion you can obtain from a straw poll is that questions were answered. Not necessarily truthfully, just answered.
Penseivat

Ted Treen said...

Based on the evidence I see all around me, it seems that attending university these days is the ultimate in self-harm.

Flaxen Saxon said...

When I were a lad university was full of folk learning stuff. Now it is full of hippies with long hair chanting, 'make love, not war'. Me: I'd shoot the lot of them and make occasional chairs out of their feckless hides. Nuff said.

JuliaM said...

"...the universities are full of snowflakes that shouldn't be there."

Are you referring to the students, or the staff? :)

"Not necessarily truthfully, just answered."

Quite!

"it seems that attending university these days is the ultimate in self-harm."

Harm they intend to inflict on us isn't JUST 'self-harm'!