UnemployedI was Mordred writes, "I've been out of work for a while now... however, every cloud must have a silver lining. Tell us your stories of the upside to unemployment."
You can tell us about the unexpected downsides too if you want.
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chthonic, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 10:02)
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Agree with you (almost) entirelyBut was it really the socialists who killed off the value of the degree?
Granted, the "Everyone's good at something" becoming "everyone gets a prize for turning up" is a typical syndrome of extreme political correctness, but it was the Tories who decided to turn the polytechnics into universities (which - I'm too young to remember them - but strikes me as a fucking stupid idea: what exactly was wrong with an institution that taught people a useful skill that would make them eligible for a trade?)
And then it was Tony "Mrs Thatcher II" Blair who decided that we needed to get 50% of our populace into university - which obviously goes back to your point about it becoming "general education."
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