Student march at Millbank
Discussion
I do want a free education for all, I'm not a socialist, just a sensible chap. But I don't want to fund the silly courses taken by idiots, I'm quite happy for tax money to fund proper degrees for hard working A level students.
It's the country which will suffer a whole in 20-30 years time. The Chinese are turning out as many graduates (proper ones, hard working, intelligent graduates who worked hard for their degree) per week as we do in a year . . . just imagine the industrial and financial momentum that can provide . . .
We are doomed . . . because we're turning away genuine students who could do well in favour of the muppets who want to study some tin pot degree which will give them nothing to contribute with later in life other than pen pushing. This is what will give us recessions, not cut backs and efficient savings in spending.
It's the country which will suffer a whole in 20-30 years time. The Chinese are turning out as many graduates (proper ones, hard working, intelligent graduates who worked hard for their degree) per week as we do in a year . . . just imagine the industrial and financial momentum that can provide . . .
We are doomed . . . because we're turning away genuine students who could do well in favour of the muppets who want to study some tin pot degree which will give them nothing to contribute with later in life other than pen pushing. This is what will give us recessions, not cut backs and efficient savings in spending.
Tiggsy said:
So many people on the radio today quoting their "right to a higher education" - screw 'em. I left school at 16 and dont want my tax bill paying for these wasters to do media studies and have days off to f
k up London.
Same, straight into work at 16. I didn't do well in my GCSEs and wouldn't expect to go to college, let alone uni with them.k up London.These b
ds need a kicking to realise that life isn't just one easy party for them. s.my employer has an office in Millbank Tower and from an email I've just had from a colleague it sounds pretty scary! Smoke bombs in the lifts, broken windows and fires. I've been in there several times and feel sorry for the poor girls that sit at the front desks in there. Must have been really terrifying for them.
john_p said:
I think tuition fees should stay where they are, just make it 3x harder to get in..
Well, I think that university places should be slashed in order to make it much more competitive. There isn't a need for the current huge flow of factory produced graduates. There aren't the business openings that require them and never will be with the volume that are being churned out.So, leave the A-levels nice and easy as they are now but severely restrict the places at university.
Just got back from lectures (where these oxygen thieves should be, though I suspect they're the sorts who study 'Media and Popular Culture' at 'Luton') and watching this on news with my fellow student house mates. Suffices to say that we're advocating a switch to 'Russian' style riot policing and keep watching in the hope we see some dread-locked-hippie-student-dick getting seven-shades kicked out of him by some huge Met Copper. Even as a student, I find myself hating a huge percentage of fellow students. So, God knows how the rest of you feel...
FraserLFA said:
and most students have been given the day off by their uni's!!!!
They sent an email round ours saying that so long as you informed them that you were going to the march, then you were granted special disposition to miss lectures/marking-sessions/tutorials. I was staggered that the university was pandering to it - if I were them, I think I'd have gone with the "if you don't turn up, you fail and get chucked out" approach.It is about time we had some rioting anyway . Everyone is bending over and takin it without the gov being held accountable for their actions .
Everyone wants to be like the French , well it's happening now .
Can I ask , if petrol went to £3 a litre and 50000 people rioted would support them or still think go and remove them by force ?
Everyone wants to be like the French , well it's happening now .
Can I ask , if petrol went to £3 a litre and 50000 people rioted would support them or still think go and remove them by force ?
How long does it take to break these morons up? A few water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas and the fkers would soon disperse and not come back.
To be honest, I think that these useless fkers causing violence are a prime example of why the University system needs a shake up to only allow those with an IQ to gain a degree 
kers would soon disperse and not come back.To be honest, I think that these useless f
kers causing violence are a prime example of why the University system needs a shake up to only allow those with an IQ to gain a degree 
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