The government have shot itself in the foot and are already beginning to reap the 'rewards' of making university unattractive. The whole concept of the huge blossoming (If that's what one calls it) of easy university and a myriad of degrees in all sorts of useless subjects was just a ploy by the government of the day, the Conservatives but backed up by Labour when they came into power, to reduce the jobless, out of work, unemployed (or whatever else it may be called) figures and it worked well. Tin pot uni's popped up all over the place taking all sorts of students with low grade passes.
Now we have crunch time so instead of the uni, we have the jobseekers queue and the associated figures will rise. The flip side is that there has been a certain amount of puffing by todays lot to set up loads of apprenticeships but of course, they want the employers to stand the cost of this. Will this work. Somehow I doubt it, the young people of today do not seem to have the same commitment to working in the fields, the preference being the social side of East Grinstead or wherever else the tech college come uni was situated. I look at the number of pupil's cars parked in Fifth Road and wonder how they can afford a late model car etc. They either have very indulgent parents or they are on a good EMA. |
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