I think educating the population does help normal britons

as we're competing with other countries on many levels, one of which being the standard and quantity of our graduates and post grads
But you can also now get into a university even if you do very badly in your A levels, albeit a 'lower quality' university, which surely must devlaue degrees. I'm not sure what the balance should be, but it seems a bit silly to allow practically anyone into university.

I also feel that having people pay a much larger % of their education costs directly will simply mean more people studying vocational degrees.
Here in S. America that's pretty much the system and an overwhelming proportion of students study things like business administration

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on November 24th 2010 at 13:46:22

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The students have walked out, (General Chat) - Al NCFC4life, Nov 24, 11:08:28
- Lets walk out of work in protest at... (General Chat) - Ben, Nov 24, 12:04:52
  - Bollox to that, I'm not losing pay over them. (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 24, 13:04:49
  - Except if you walked out of your work, you would then have to slag yourself off. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Nov 24, 12:30:59
    - Also, they already pay, it is current 6th formers they are protesting on behalf of. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Nov 24, 12:31:55
      - and they're rightly protesting - education is becoming something many poorer families (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 24, 13:09:10
        
        Student loan, part time job, simples (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Nov 24, 13:29:07
        
        That's true. That's how I did it. It isn't easy though. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 24, 13:33:17
        
        the scrapping of the EMA is wrong - but the rest of it, nah, that's bullshit (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 13:18:50
        
        of course (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 24, 13:25:45
        
        it depends on whether the amount of people going into university education bears any relat (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 13:30:33
        
        of course it does (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 24, 13:52:47
        
        you think it's necessary to have a degree to be an estate agent? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 14:00:14
        
        I think (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 24, 14:06:11
        
        there is further education outside of universities y'know (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 14:13:17
        
        I think educating the population does help normal britons (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 24, 13:46:22
        
        sorry, i never meant to suggest that a better educated population was a bad thing (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 13:53:10
        
        I'd like to continue this, as it's an interesting and important topic (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 24, 14:41:56
        
        Tbf, I'm not sure it ever moved on from that. In fact I'd have thought (General Chat) - CB41, Nov 24, 13:18:20
        
        50 years ago you'd have had to have gone to a public school to get into many jobs (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Nov 24, 13:28:17
- Students!! (General Chat) - Martin Peters, Nov 24, 11:43:48
- are they all revolting (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Nov 24, 11:10:29
  - no comment, (General Chat) - Al NCFC4life, Nov 24, 11:14:03
- if any students are reading this, dont forget a fire extinguisher has more than one use (General Chat) - Tombs, Nov 24, 11:09:54
  - as someone who manages fire equipment recharge can i politely tell you to... (General Chat) - samcd84, Nov 24, 12:02:21

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