I'm a physics graduate
you presumptuous moron.

If you read the second of my replies, I'm all for getting rid of the pointless courses and returning to on-the-job training. Tour managers do not need a fucking degree. But the fact is that the employer used to pay for that stuff because they thought it was important to have employees that knew what they were doing. Similarly the Government used to pay for students to learn because it was important to have people who knew things for the sake of the country.

Now the businesses think that the training should be paid for by the future employees - and I think that's wrong. The Government thinks the learning should be paid for by the learners - and I think that's wrong, especially when they all had the benefits of a free education.

As for my *optional* *voluntary* education, I'm more than prepared to pay a higher tax bracket as a result of my education, which will then pay for the education of the next generation. And I'm happy to have the tax rate raised for that.

I just think the idea of putting students tens of thousands of pounds into debt at the beginning of their careers is one of the stupidest and most unfair things I've ever heard, and is giving the current generation a massive, massive disadvantage compared to the ones that have come before them.

Your principles are different, that's fine. Don't tell me what mine should be.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 12:05, 1 reply)

lols
just read *your* other reply and actually we probably agree on many things.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 12:12, closed)