It's not free - somebody else is paying for it.

[ferretfatcam]

my daughters a soliciter and i am off the cross didnt realise i was a rich parent

[boyfriday]

my daughters a soliciter and i am off the cross didnt realise i was a rich parent

 

Sadly it's what many girls off t'Cross have to resort to

[angos]

...................

[Cyclone]

Yes I agree. Far too many useless degrees, which is why I think universities should be for strictly academic courses. Insisting a student spends time in the UK after qualifying seems perfectly reasonable.

 

Sounds like illegal detention to me.

 

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Personally I think Maths and Sciences mainly. Obviously it's debatable, different people will have different views.

 

Universities should be centres of excellence and research.

 

That's it, just 2 subjects... Wow.

 

No medicine, no engineering, no IT of any kind, no business, no MBAs, no finance, no law, and so on.

 

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Both, they would compete to keep the available business and the uncompetitive ones would close.

 

if EVERYONE stopped going, whatever it is would close. There is no competition if you have NO customers.

[angos]

 

if EVERYONE stopped going, whatever it is would close. There is no competition if you have NO customers.

 

Yes, I assumed though that when they said everyone they actually meant a lot, a bit like saying

"hey look everyone is going somewhere."

or asking

"were is everyone going,"

when clearly it is just a large number of people going somewhere and not everyone.

[Supertramp]

Higher Education should be free

 

BUT

 

We need to return to the Grammer School system

 

BECAUSE

 

Only the best would go to university

 

BECAUSE NOW

 

its only the richest that get the best education

 

AND

 

Thats not right

 

BUT

 

The current system favours the rich eliete

 

AND

 

Thats why the rich liberals

 

HATE

 

The old grammer system

 

Would they have taught you some grammar and spelling?

[geared]

No, because only the best would go :hihi:

[Supertramp]

No, because only the best would go :hihi:

 

Oh is that what he/she was saying? I thought it was a poem.

[Detetcive]

The socialist students are out in force again insisting that higher education should be free. If you ask them who should be paying for it, they stare at you blankly.

 

You can see their point. Why should those getting high level qualifications and likely to earn far more than their less educated peers be required to contribute to the cost of that education when the extra earning comes in. It's so unfair. We really should take some more money off the magic money tree and use it to fund higher education fully.

 

It should be an especially high priority to find full funding for such vitally important popular courses as media studies and sports journalism.

 

The tax payer. Simple. I benefited from a free higher and further education and have paid the money back in spades through the taxing of the higher earnings I have been able to make as a result of my education

[sheff71]

The tax payer. Simple. I benefited from a free higher and further education and have paid the money back in spades through the taxing of the higher earnings I have been able to make as a result of my education

 

Much better nowadays though if the students going onto Higher Education have to take out a loan (ideally interest free), and only start paying it back when they start earning over a specified threshold - so those who do go onto excel in their field and earn the big money can be seen to be paying it back more quickly, and also act as an incentive for students to go onto courses that will help them get a better paying job, and maybe also keep them focussed on their studies more than getting hammered every weekend...