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Tuition fees/loans should be scrapped


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Aren't we already doing that? There's an awful lot of distance learning available in the UK.

 

we have the technology - remote learning must be the future.

 

---------- Post added 24-08-2015 at 15:52 ----------

 

Haven't you heard of the OU?

 

Been around for years....

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So we've doing distance learning for years..it's nothing new..

 

technology has come along a bit since those late night OU science shows.:hihi:

 

---------- Post added 24-08-2015 at 15:57 ----------

 

I think you'll find if you look into it, that it's also the present.

 

fantastic. it should be.;)

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anything that really has no application in the real world should be cut IMHO. Degrees are too expensive to chuff about for 3 years and have nothing to show for it.

 

That's one of the most stupidest things you've come out with. You'd struggle to actually find a degree that doesn't have an application in the 'real world'.

In fact the way you characterise certain strands of education as being more worthy than others simply shows that you don't really know what your on about.

It's as if we, as a nation are following a predetermined plan with an end goal, and if someones choice of degree doesn't fit in with that then it's a pointless one and should be cut. We're not btw.

If you were to transform that idea for the supermarket they'd sell vitamin tablets and water, because after all why would we need anything else?

 

The David beckham degree is real, in a sense. It was called football culture or some such and was a module on sports science, sociology degree courses.

So even the example you give to mock the idea of a pointless degree. Is part of a course that is used as entry to part of a massive industry.

 

The student loan and it's new iteration is practically perfect because it's a way to be inclusive, your hedging your bet with one of the best bits of finance your probably ever going to be offered. Having the cost or the acceptance in any way decided by the parents is wrong, if the parents are well off enough to pay for the kids then great, good for them. But it's not the parents responsibility, degree students are adults and as such need to be treated as individuals by the state.

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That's one of the most stupidest things you've come out with. You'd struggle to actually find a degree that doesn't have an application in the 'real world'.

 

Touche.....moronic statement. :loopy:

 

---------- Post added 24-08-2015 at 16:08 ----------

 

In fact the way you characterise certain strands of education as being more worthy than others simply shows that you don't really know what your on about.

 

I got 2 degrees and spent years in higher education. Know a bit.

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That's one of the most stupidest things you've come out with. You'd struggle to actually find a degree that doesn't have an application in the 'real world'.

In fact the way you characterise certain strands of education as being more worthy than others simply shows that you don't really know what your on about.

It's as if we, as a nation are following a predetermined plan with an end goal, and if someones choice of degree doesn't fit in with that then it's a pointless one and should be cut. We're not btw.

If you were to transform that idea for the supermarket they'd sell vitamin tablets and water, because after all why would we need anything else?

 

The David beckham degree is real, in a sense. It was called football culture or some such and was a module on sports science, sociology degree courses.

So even the example you give to mock the idea of a pointless degree. Is part of a course that is used as entry to part of a massive industry.

 

The student loan and it's new iteration is practically perfect because it's a way to be inclusive, your hedging your bet with one of the best bits of finance your probably ever going to be offered. Having the cost or the acceptance in any way decided by the parents is wrong, if the parents are well off enough to pay for the kids then great, good for them. But it's not the parents responsibility, degree students are adults and as such need to be treated as individuals by the state.

 

Here's a thought, why not give the top 5% brightest (regardless of background) free degrees and let the rest pay?

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The David beckham degree is real, in a sense. It was called football culture or some such and was a module on sports science, sociology degree courses.

So even the example you give to mock the idea of a pointless degree. Is part of a course that is used as entry to part of a massive industry.

 

 

you can google and read wikipedia. clap-clap.

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The student loan and it's new iteration is practically perfect

 

No it's not. having a free education and no massive debt is preferable.

 

---------- Post added 24-08-2015 at 16:10 ----------

 

no your stupidest! :)

 

coming from you it's practically a compliment.

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