Bigfella top dad!
I mean the international standing of most British Unis is plummeting (except for superfunded old school ones)
And taxes won't pay for that vital quality boost.
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As think you have before Sooty.
We have too many Universities and too many people attending them.
But in a broader sense. I work in social care and the scythe hangs over my job. But being completely fair it's my oewn sectors fault for being over cautious, over reliant on government funds, inneficent and having a certain degree of contempt for those who wanted to volunteer for free in an area we were all paid.
We've taken supporting the vulnerable into a business where if you can't bring funds from somewhere. Then you get no help or a decidely second rate kind of help.
Massive moan I know.
But what I mean is that cuts are not inherently bad. In some ways they can be a good thing.
In university education they may be providing a better standard of education and more security than in my day.
And in my profession it may be they sort out some of the problems in social care. And I shouldn't whine too much if it turns out it's my job on the line.
Quote: youngian @ December 14 2010, 2:46 PM GMTIt's seems more and more jobs asks for a degree which used to done by school leavers doing three to five years day and block release providing adequate academic rigour to improve their working life. There must be thousands of young people feeling forced to rack up debt on a pointless university course just to get a foot on the ladder.
The Blair Legacy.
Labour unthinking universalism has been so harmful
Interesting analysis of the figures on the R4 show 'More or Less', which showed that the new fee system is effectively more progressive, because it favours those who end up earning least. A lot of the least well-paid graduates will never have to repay their loans, apparently.
From Private Eye...
'Winston Churchill wasn't the only great man to have his statue defiled during the recent disorder in Parliament Square. Lloyd George, Lincoln and Mandela also got the red paint and graffiti treatment from the mob.
It is unlikely that any of the "students" who vandalised Mandela's statue realised the full irony of what they were doing. Erected in the square in 2007, it was the work of the late sculptor Ian Walters, a committed socialist who also produced memorials to other left-wing heroes such as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the International Brigade and the Wapping protesters.
Walters, who died in 2006 aged 76, supported student causes throughout his life. In 1968 he was sacked from his job as a lecturer at the Guildford School of Art for supporting a student sit-in over, er, the chronic underfunding of teaching resources.
Tory scum!'