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If you have been watching the BBC news doesn't this lot really make you feel proud to be British

What annoys me more than anything is that the real students that will get on in life do not have to pay back any money until they earn 21,000 a year. What is wrong with them . When I was younger you had to be a real brain box to go to University, or if not like me study on day release if your firm would let you. In my case a day and an evening after work. Plus it did not stop after one term or one year it went on and on. Agreed I benefited from it, as the more qualifications I got the higher up the tree I climbed.

I never thought I would say this but what has happened to the young generation of to-day.

I was still studying in my fifties, had to, to keep up with modern trends. Maybe I should have demonstrated, I wonder how far I would have got.

Another gripe is just how many of these idiots are at Uni just for a dose, I wonder

Carmen wrote:

Your right Mickhev there does seem to be a lot of different this that people can study that will never be any use to them or anyone else for example why would you want to study Folk and Traditional Music :shocked1:as you say Mickhev it should be something useful.

hahahaha thats a funny course do they have an Andrea chalga music course? hahaha coz id pass that LOL

In my day very few, in fact only the really clever people went to University, in fact there were not that many Universities either.

In 1990 there were over 200,000 students.

Now just over 10 years on there are over 400,000

There are also old style Colleges that have been given University status in order to cater for the large amounts of students. There used to be a thing called the apprentice scheme/s where the clever people were taught a trade or profession. There are now shortages in these areas and hence people are brought in from abroad to keep things going. A previous government (Labour I think) encouraged young people to stay on in education because there were not the jobs. So it is not really the students fault that they are in this position. :: But in this economic mess how can we justify the expenditure. Even us Pensioners (not me yet for a state pension) are having to suffer. They say on one hand there are increases to pensions yet on the other hand they change the method of calculation so that pensioners get less of an increase.

Seems that we are all in this merry go round together.

Looks like its all kicked off today but it does look like it better than the last Protest lets keep our fingers crossed that they all behave themselves