Thanks to a new study by the University of New South Wales we have learned that if you don’t look where you are going you bump into things.
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Bless them 
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I grew up with the story of Jonny Head-in-the-Air…
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Very enlightening, next they’ll be informing us texting AND having a pie of headphones clamped to the head could be even more hazardous.
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That war poem stuck in my mind from an early age and has stayed with me ever since.
For Johnny
Do not despair
For Johnny-head-in-air;
He sleeps as sound
As Johnny underground.
Fetch out no shroud
For Johnny-in-the-cloud;
And keep your tears
For him in after years.
Better by far
For Johnny-the-bright-star,
To keep your head
And see his children fed.
It reminds me that war always leave children without fathers and they must be taken car of away from harm.
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Not a shock to me,i see it on a daily basis,numptys.
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I think lots of folk have worked that one out for themselves, and at half the price Mr Smith…
This must be essential learning to set students up for a top of the range job when they leave university. When I was their age I could manufacture any number of components to a high specification using a variety of machines…
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There is a name or category for this kind of academic research (honest, look it up on 'Net)
It’s called -
The Study of the Bleeding Obvious
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We hear that so often, don’t we, that young people take courses at university on which they don’t learn anything nor acquire any useful skills and, at the end, they get Mickey-Mouse-degrees that no employer acknowledges .
Oddly enough, all that has been common knowledge to both students and employers for years if not decades and it seems to be a waste of time and money.
Yet it raises the one question: If nobody gains anything, why are those courses still offered and also attended?
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Universities are not so much learning centres these days more profit making centres.
Coz the poor kids are Stacking up Student Debt instead of claiming Dole Money, simples 
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I don’t blame the kids but the system. The kids are put under pressure to achieve these days, irrespective of whether they are academically equipped or not, and they think it’s a failure not to attend university.
That’s the top and bottom of it Spitty, and they don’t want the unemployment figures going off the scale each September from the thousands of school leavers unable to find work because all the industry has gone to Asia. It’s not good for the election results.
Just like the Slaves though historically, keeps us rich by the poor kids owing the state instead of sponging off it 
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That’s common practice here, too, so I learnt but those who do that don’t usually take a degree. So there must still be enough students who complete such degree programmes that seemingly are to no avail. If that wasn’t the case, no profit would be made and the courses probably abolished.
All in all, it seems a bad deal for the students because debts will have to be paid back, won’t they, while dole money can be kept? True?
Its a problem for youngsters, some just apply for jobs that keep them just below the pay back level, that just seems to defeat the objective of the education.
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There’s a very poignant film featuring that poem.
Brit name: Johnny in the Clouds.
US name:The Way to the Stars.
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The texting thing doesn’t apply to me because I can’t read them without my glasses, and I never go out walking with my glasses on. Also, the buttons on the phone are too fiddly for my fingers and it takes me half an hour to write what I could say in two minutes.
I can’t believe they had to commission a study to find this out. Surely common sense would have told them!
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The texting thing doesn’t apply to me because I only have a mobile phone for emergencies and have never texted anything.
Someone accused me of being a technophobe. I pointed out I had studied computing with my Physics degree and taught it at evening classes. The look on their face was a picture. I have a perfectly good lifestyle that doesn’t need a mobile phone glued to my ears or fingers all the time
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