Student Fees

[Futuo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8633358.stm

Do we really need so many politics and sociology students anyroad?

Going to Uni to do a vocational degree makes a great deal of sense, just going for a laugh and to keep the unemployment figures down seems rather a waste of time / money imho.

So why not make them pay their way, if they want to do peace studies then fine as long as they pay for it.

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JagLover said:

and the Lib Dems are going to abolish them and replace the £1.8bn they bring in with more government spending (has anyone told them about the £170bn deficit?)

They will just tax the workers more and more to cover all this worthless crap. As will Labour.

20% of the adult population work for the public sector, 20% of the adult population is not working, bloody marvellous isn't it?

Unless the Tories get in we are doomed, worse than Greece, but at least the IMF if involved will slash the public sector.

[Futuo]

Can't see the problem with a loan, if you choose a Mickey Mouse degree then of course you've less chance of paying said loan back so perhaps non vocational loans should be loaded.

[Futuo]

But why would they choose such a crap degree, is it because they know they aren't up to something worthwhile like accounting, law, medicine etc?

Why should second raters be going to Uni in the first place, it should only be for the elite (regardless of family income). Plus point of Grammar Schools too.

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JagLover said:

the deficit will be cut via public spending rather than tax/ni rises.

As it should be, we are already taxed to the hilt as it is.

Didn't Universities used to be for 1% of the population not bloody 50% !!

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DangerousMike said:

a degree in accounting is not worthwhile!

http://www.gaapweb.com/Browse/All-chartered+accountant-Job-Results.html

seems to be some jobs there, are there many unemployed Chartered Accountants

[Futuo]

When I say vocational I mean things like law, dentistry etc that lead to a job allied to the course you've just done, rather than doing History and then becoming a manager at M&S.

How is it re Engineering, surely Britain should be churning out some of the best in the world (just look at top motor sport teams virtually all based within the UK).

9am starts here, 5 days a week, half day on Wednesday, girlfriend of the time was doing Art and never started until after lunch.....

Edited by Futuo on Thursday 22 April 00:03

[Futuo]

Seems I'm a bit out of touch, I thought if you were a Chartered Accountant then you'd done that as a degree and not Art History.

[Futuo]

So are you saying all Lawyers aren't LLBs?

Things must have changed as when I went to Uni I did Optics and became an Optician, it's the only way you can become an Optician, you can't study Literature and then do a bolt on Optics conversion, there's too much to learn to do it that way. Same as Dentists and Doctors.