(March 24, 2016 at 11:21 am)Brian37 Wrote: I don't think anyone where ever they end up should be denied the highest education they can get. A more educated society and the better paid everyone is the more stable that society is. I certainly didn't end up in the field I got my degree in. But I still wouldn't trade my education for anything.
We most certainly could move to free higher education, and it is bullshit to say we'd have to become Cuba to do that.
Germany and Finland are certainly doing OK given free higher education to anybody that wants it. Germany's economy is the largest in Europe.
I've got the skills to move anywhere in the world precisely because I was brought up in a country that had free education. In my first year at university I even managed to get the last of the student grants.
Unfortunately the UK now puts its students into a lifetime of debt. The UK government have been slowly selling off all the assets of this country or taking them for granted not realising that they need investment in order to continue bringing in money (e.g. academia).
