bcss reports and figures

[iann]

I think "industry" is what happens in China? You know, things like manufacturing chemicals to feed to babies

[Peter]

Sorry, Dave, but you're pushing against the wind. These 'bright young things' aren't going to start anywhere as apprentices. That was a different world. Nowadays they have student loans to pay off - and there's always an employer looking for a go-ahead bright spark and will pay him/her upwards of 20K straight off. Why should such a young person, itching to get out of education, want to get their hands dirty?
And - bear in mind that in the UK, different to other countries, engineers and the like are not especially highly regarded and thus don't get the pay they really deserve.

[Bill G]

Whereas I hesitate to interupt this bun-fight between the academics (who do little - but are harmless) and the industrialists (who are overpaid - and pollute the world) can I ask Robert for what qualification this dissertation is intended and at what type of institution he is studying (school, college, correspondence college etc)?
Bill Greenaway

[Robert K]

i study at askham bryan college and in my second year at foundation degree horticulture.
this is however my 5th year at college. i have worked my way from the very bottom getting the results i need to work my way up.

i have done
first diploma horticulture
national diploma horticulture


not sure if anyone has heard of the place but i have also spent 6 months working at achamore gardens on the isle of gigha in scotland

[Bill G]

OK Robert. You wish to do a dissertation which has a cactus theme.
Usually in a dissertation you would provide a general introduction then give specific examples, and then provide a summary.

You could do a nice dissertation on the effects man has on the flora of this planet.The cactus world will give you plenty of specific examples which you can easily investigate via the internet -- for example the Australia/Opuntia/cactoblastis epic; Pelycyphora and road building; Pediocactus knowltonii and commercial collecting; Mammillaria scheinvariana and dam building etc.etc.

This would make a topical dissertation using cacti to illustrate those points that you wished to consider in more detail.

Bill Greenaway

[Mal H]

I like Eriosyce, any friendly forumites with nice pictures to view?



:cac3::cac3::cac3::cac3: Let me know when it is safe for academics to reappear !! :cac3::cac3::cac3::cac3:


Mal

[Bill]

I think this thread has run it's course in it's present form. If you want to continue this in a similar vain can I suggest someone starts a new thread in off topic.

Thanks

Bill Hildyard

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[DaveW]

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Bill Hildyard

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[matchat]

Bill G Wrote:
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> OK Robert. You wish to do a dissertation which has
> a cactus theme.
> Usually in a dissertation you would provide a
> general introduction then give specific examples,
> and then provide a summary.
>
> You could do a nice dissertation on the effects
> man has on the flora of this planet.The cactus
> world will give you plenty of specific examples
> which you can easily investigate via the internet
> -- for example the Australia/Opuntia/cactoblastis
> epic; Pelycyphora and road building; Pediocactus
> knowltonii and commercial collecting; Mammillaria
> scheinvariana and dam building etc.etc.
>
> This would make a topical dissertation using
> cacti to illustrate those points that you wished
> to consider in more detail.
>
> Bill Greenaway

Unfortunately Bill a dissertation really ought to include primary evidence in addition to secondary and tertiary evidence (data collected by oneself). Obviously collecting primary data for a study of this type is only really feasible if you can visit the habitat location.

I imagine a similar theme could be developed around plants in cultivation with some form of reference to habitat populations and how the two are linked? Primary data could be collected in the U.K. although I have no idea what question could be posed to link the two.

[Bill G]

I suspect that Roberts dissertation does not need to include original research ("primary evidence"). Roberts tutor could tell him this.

Bill Greenaway