His threat was worded as follows:
“Goodbye first rate education, hello University of Lincoln”.
His threat clearly did the trick as Will was terrified; he replied, “I’ve been to Lincoln, and it’s a shithole”
As a graduate of the University of Lincoln I feel the need to contribute my two cents.
Firstly, yes it was quite funny, I can take a joke, but none the less it was a bit misplaced. I’m not trying to say that Lincoln is up there with Warwick or Cambridge because, come on, it’s not. But still, surely it’s not so bad as to justify a very public and scathing slur?
For a start, the Inbetweeners boys themselves are sixth formers, so who’s going to be watching it? Tens of thousands of similar sixth formers and college students who in the next few months are going to be sending their UCAS forms off with their six chosen Universities. I’d hope that they’d know better than to let their choice be influenced by a programme which is mainly concerned with the inability of teenage boys to get laid, but we were all 17 once.
Also, it’s worth bearing in mind that the subject specific league tables tell a very different story. For example for Business the Guardian puts us at number 33, we’re 29 for Media and Communications (my area) and even get up to the dizzy heights of 25 for Architecture, all in the top third.
However, there are two sides to the story; for Drama we’re way down at 84 and for History we’re a not so impressive 89 which is perhaps where the University’s reputation for low academic standards comes from. (Based solely on The Guardian University guide, because The Times one is a hassle to get access to)
And we haven’t even touched on the Universities trump card yet, student experience. Lincoln was ranked 34 out of 104, whatever that exactly means but it’s a low number so that must be good, and ever since the University’s communications people got their hands on that figure they’ve been telling anyone who’d listen, and even those who don’t care, repeatedly, with a verse of “improved six years running” and “most improved University 2009” thrown in for good measure.
In defence of the University and its students, the comment has stirred up a bit of a furore on social networking sites Twitter and Facebook as well as the blogosphere. With groups like,"Fuck you gilbert, i'm proud of my second rate education."
After years of defending my choice of University, especially doing a Media course, easy target really, hopefully they will have an easier time of it than I did!
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ReplyDeleteOi there, this article helped me a little 'cause since I watched this episode, I've been bloody searching reasons why it was that university known as that, since I don't live anywhere near Lincoln. Anyway, a little mistake, Gilbert didn't threatened Will about getting a date with his mom, he threatened about investigating who did the vandalism with the flowers to say "we c u m t i t village" haha
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know that I got what happened completely wrong! No idea where I got the online dating thing from, may have just made it up! Have corrected.
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