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Originally Posted by Guinness
All of which is pretty much down to the way higher education is funded. Courses such as Coronation Street and The Beatles attract funding, as do one day courses on Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Load Management. The line between university and college has become blurred. So many colleges of further education are applying for university status to get onto this gravy train.
I'm always a tad sceptical of surveys that benefit the instigators.
Degree courses in Science, Technology and Engineering have to fend for themselves under Cameron, as they have done under Blair, Brown and Thatcher. And I'm not even going to mention tuition fees, oops, already did 
Those that are lucky enough, wealthy enough and smart enough to get onto these limited courses sod off to countries that value them as soon as they graduate. |
I can definitely say that Thatcher did entice and pay for uni courses. My daughter had already graduated then joined time served electricians, engineers and others at university in Thatcher's newly set up "Design and Technolgy" degree course. This was set up to increase our exports, because France, for example, were refusing to import our products due to them not being "pleasing to look at" This government has put more money into bursaries for maths & science degree courses. I like to be fair and if I could recall Blair & Brown giving out freebie courses I would set them down here too - maybe someone else could shine alight.
What is so depressing is that when there's a turn up in trade the majority of company job vacancies always stipulate "with experience" - the experience usually anything between two and five years. This government is trying to solve this problem of the need for "experience" - in fact my grandson is in the middle of his degree course and currently serving one year full time "job experience".... I doubt that will be long enough to satisfy future vacancy requirements and we'll be experiencing more immigration when the job markets open up.