RE: Riots in the UK?
November 16, 2010 at 6:33 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2010 at 6:39 am by Skipper.)
(November 15, 2010 at 7:28 pm)Ashendant Wrote: has there been any lib dem party? that won the elections
Never on their own in the UK. They have formed coalition governments with other parties, such as right now with the conservatives.
(November 15, 2010 at 7:41 pm)theVOID Wrote: The govt is paying the vast majority of the cost to send students to Uni, as well as giving loans below the cost to service, if they increase the amount of revenue returned from loans (by 66% though increasing base fees), cut student numbers (like the students who sign up for uni because it's cheap and they cbf working, which happens way too often) and boost the quality of education for the students who are serious about their attendance then you get an education system with less waste in dollars, resources and higher success rates.
In the UK it used to be something like 10% of young people going to university and this was fully funded by grants. Now it's more like 45% of people, because labour decided university was for everyone. Which it clearly isn't. I know some people who are thick as shit that have gone to university and studied courses to go and end up in a job they could have got straight out of high school and been better off for the work experience and have zero debt.
It should never have been seen as a entitlement. The more intelligent people should have gone to uni, had their courses all paid fully by grants and this would mean even people from poor backgrounds could easily have gone had they been clever enough. They could all have had quality education, with far less people there who are just going to fuck about and delay their entrance into the real world.
