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I RAN the programme.
No, it wasn't self-funded. But the people on it had to use their own time for tutorials and assignments.
It was run in-house, with the OU, and people did it while doing their normal jobs.
I agree when people go off away for a long time and do it, they can emerge with the wrong expectations. That didn't happen here.

And did you arrange placements for students who didn’t have jobs so that on graduating, they could use their MBAs to get jobs?

Getting back on topic, you say that a lot of big companies send their staff to do MBAs. It’s a huge investment and it’s incredibly difficult to get an employer to fund one to go on one.

A lot of the stiff on an MBA is basic common sense and it more about soft skills unless there is a real skills based module like Operational Management or Quants.

I think there is a bright side to this disgraceful decision by the BBC. What will happen now, is that it will become more and more difficult for them to collect the licence fee off people totally pissed off by the announcement. The public will turn to broadcasters and select what they want to watch and pay for that. The BBC have shot themselves in a part of them which will cause a slow bleed, but with devastating effect.

Over the years they have lavished billions of public money, over-paying themselves ridiculous salaries and expenses. I am going to watch them die slowly with great pleasure.

BBC Blackout is on this FRIDAY 21st June .
Announced by protest groups , urging viewers, online users not to view or access any BBC content on any medium for the whole day.
It can also be used as a social experiment to see if you can live without the BBC at all .
Bad choice as England play Sri Lanka on Friday in the World Cup and TMS is very popular with gardeners and the like.

This means not watching;
Drama, Really, Yesterday, Dave, Home, W, Alibi, Gold and Eden channels.

AlcoholBrazil wrote:BBC Blackout is on this FRIDAY 21st June .
Announced by protest groups , urging viewers, online users not to view or access any BBC content on any medium for the whole day.
It can also be used as a social experiment to see if you can live without the BBC at all .
Bad choice as England play Sri Lanka on Friday in the World Cup and TMS is very popular with gardeners and the like.

I'm in

AlcoholBrazil wrote:BBC Blackout is on this FRIDAY 21st June .
Announced by protest groups , urging viewers, online users not to view or access any BBC content on any medium for the whole day.
It can also be used as a social experiment to see if you can live without the BBC at all .
Bad choice as England play Sri Lanka on Friday in the World Cup and TMS is very popular with gardeners and the like

AlcoholBrazil wrote:BBC Blackout is on this FRIDAY 21st June .
Announced by protest groups , urging viewers, online users not to view or access any BBC content on any medium for the whole day.
It can also be used as a social experiment to see if you can live without the BBC at all .
Bad choice as England play Sri Lanka on Friday in the World Cup and TMS is very popular with gardeners and the like.

I said the other day on here that it's completely pointless unless you happen to be one of the 5000 people in this country whose viewing habits are monitored to produce the viewing figures.

AlcoholBrazil wrote:BBC Blackout is on this FRIDAY 21st June .
Announced by protest groups , urging viewers, online users not to view or access any BBC content on any medium for the whole day.
It can also be used as a social experiment to see if you can live without the BBC at all .
Bad choice as England play Sri Lanka on Friday in the World Cup and TMS is very popular with gardeners and the like.

Does this mean I have to turn Brillo off at midnight on thursday ? Him, Humphrys and Nick Robinson are the only things worth having the BBC for.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/bb ... -1-4948119

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... annel.html

£32m of licence payers money up the swanny.

Along wth it's blatant political bias, it's hard to conclude anything other than the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.

Time to either close it down or let it fend for itself in the commercial sector.

Steve Hunt wrote:https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/bb ... -1-4948119

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... annel.html

£32m of licence payers money up the swanny.

Along wth it's blatant political bias, it's hard to conclude anything other than the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.

Time to either close it down or let it fend for itself in the commercial sector.

Pointless quoting the DM in a BBC story.
They find a reason to bash it every day.
Please don't tell me you're another Daily Mail reader, Steve? We've been through all this with Zambo.

subsub wrote:

Steve Hunt wrote:https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/bb ... -1-4948119

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... annel.html

£32m of licence payers money up the swanny.

Along wth it's blatant political bias, it's hard to conclude anything other than the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.

Time to either close it down or let it fend for itself in the commercial sector.

Pointless quoting the DM in a BBC story.
They find a reason to bash it every day.
Please don't tell me you're another Daily Mail reader, Steve? We've been through all this with Zambo.

I quoted The Scotsman as well, sub. Given that the story is based on BBC Scotland, I thought that was more than appropriate.

I initially heard the story on LBC laste last night.

But here's a few more links:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11416 ... icence-fee

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4 ... -21-shows/

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17712 ... o-viewers/

So perhaps, in this instance at least, rather than blame the messenger, it might be wiser to concentrate on the message itself.

Steve Hunt wrote:

subsub wrote:

Steve Hunt wrote:https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/bb ... -1-4948119

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... annel.html

£32m of licence payers money up the swanny.

Along wth it's blatant political bias, it's hard to conclude anything other than the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.

Time to either close it down or let it fend for itself in the commercial sector.

Pointless quoting the DM in a BBC story.
They find a reason to bash it every day.
Please don't tell me you're another Daily Mail reader, Steve? We've been through all this with Zambo.

I quoted The Scotsman as well, sub. Given that the story is based on BBC Scotland, I thought that was more than appropriate.

I initially heard the story on LBC laste last night.

But here's a few more links:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/11416 ... icence-fee

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4 ... -21-shows/

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17712 ... o-viewers/

So perhaps, in this instance at least, rather than blame the messenger, it might be wiser to concentrate on the message itself.

Perhaps you don't remember Steve
They did this because the Scottish Parliament insisted it was needed and that people in Scotland didn't get enough share of the broadcasting spend. The BBC is supposed to respond to these things, unlike any other broadcaster, and may well have thought it was probably a dead duck.
As for the BBC being in the commercial sector, ans I have posted many times before, beware of unintended consequences. If it was reliant on advertising, which I would hate, it would within a year result in the demise of large swathes of independent broadcasting. The BBC's audience, both in scale and makeup, would be irresistible to advertisers who would stampede there.

subsub wrote:

Steve Hunt wrote:https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/bb ... -1-4948119

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... annel.html

£32m of licence payers money up the swanny.

Along wth it's blatant political bias, it's hard to conclude anything other than the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.

Time to either close it down or let it fend for itself in the commercial sector.

Pointless quoting the DM in a BBC story.
They find a reason to bash it every day.
Please don't tell me you're another Daily Mail reader, Steve? We've been through all this with Zambo.

Maybe you'd like to give us a list of papers we are allowed to read.