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Perhaps my children were better off attending the University of Life
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I doubt one or two isolated incidents are going to have a bearing on the fees issue. The fees are wrong because a country should invest in it's greatest intellect, the individuals are contributing years of their life to learn as their contribution.
Whether your children are better in the University of Life will depend on them. Can they take advantage of further education or would that be a waste of time for them. Would they progress better if they used those years building the foundation of their career in employment, proving what they are capable of ?
Both the country and I certainly gained from going to university, but that was before the government shed its responsibility and told folk that society doesn't care enough, and to sort yourselves out. Whilst trying to get all school levers to feel they had to go regardless.
Whether your children are better in the University of Life will depend on them. Can they take advantage of further education or would that be a waste of time for them. Would they progress better if they used those years building the foundation of their career in employment, proving what they are capable of ?
Both the country and I certainly gained from going to university, but that was before the government shed its responsibility and told folk that society doesn't care enough, and to sort yourselves out. Whilst trying to get all school levers to feel they had to go regardless.
I thought my tuition fees were worth paying. Then again, I haven't actually started paying them yet, so...
It's pretty much all in a name anyway. Apart from some paperwork beforehand, the only real difference I could see between Tuition Fees as implemented now, and a "Graduate Tax" suggested by the NUS, was that one is called a fee and the other is called a tax. The (re)payment conditions were basically the same: capped at a fixed rate per month, only paid beyond a fixed salary (£15k for me, £21k for the last three years or so), (re)payment ended after 35 years or so. I'm not convinced it's worth complaining about. Sure, I'm in some horrifically large-looking amount of debt but it's not all that bad and at the end I got a good degree.
The remainder is perhaps prejudice more than anything else. Is Sociology any less important than a maths degree in practice? I'd like to think so, but beyond a certain point all subjects become too specialised to be applicable in daily life or in most careers outside active research. The main difference is that I enjoy maths a lot more than I would sociology.
It's pretty much all in a name anyway. Apart from some paperwork beforehand, the only real difference I could see between Tuition Fees as implemented now, and a "Graduate Tax" suggested by the NUS, was that one is called a fee and the other is called a tax. The (re)payment conditions were basically the same: capped at a fixed rate per month, only paid beyond a fixed salary (£15k for me, £21k for the last three years or so), (re)payment ended after 35 years or so. I'm not convinced it's worth complaining about. Sure, I'm in some horrifically large-looking amount of debt but it's not all that bad and at the end I got a good degree.
The remainder is perhaps prejudice more than anything else. Is Sociology any less important than a maths degree in practice? I'd like to think so, but beyond a certain point all subjects become too specialised to be applicable in daily life or in most careers outside active research. The main difference is that I enjoy maths a lot more than I would sociology.
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