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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Bradley: Let's sto... · 1 reply · +1 points
To explain this in detail would require a book that I have no inclination to write, but basically the johnny-come-lately colleges never had the resourcing, the academic staff and the culture necessary to reproduce what still goes on the at the very best British universities. The feedback I got back from my students who went to them was depressing and sometimes a little heart-breaking - poor resources, limited contact with lecturers, often few lectures at all, minimal supervision of extended papers and endless accommodation worries. All so that Blair could claim half of all young people were going to "university".
The consequences are well-known. They include growing numbers of youngsters with degrees doing jobs they feel are beneath them because, well, they've got a degree... Court cases in which students are taking universities to law because they owe £50k in debt and cannot see what they got for it. Employers in the real world unable to find capable people to train in apprenticeships that would give them an excellent income for life because all the good kids were, and still are, being persuaded to to go to university.
Before I left I came to the conclusion that there are only two reasons to go to university - to join one of the professions or because one has a profound love of and interest in a subject. No one else should bother.
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Bradley: Let's sto... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ben Bradley: Let's sto... · 3 replies · +1 points
Have you the foggiest idea what is happening in the average "university" since Blair decided that any educational institution that wanted to be be one could be? I can assure you, it is not what you describe above!
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Dale: No gloating... · 0 replies · +1 points
Now down to the offy to collect the champagne I ordered.
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Welcome to Brexit Week · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Does Johnson have the ... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Scruton and the Tories... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Does Downing Street wa... · 0 replies · +1 points
I believe you've finally got it, Rosie!
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Does Downing Street wa... · 1 reply · +1 points
I get no sense that they have learned - or are capable of learning - anything from recent events. Now they are sulking rather than reporting objectively, never mind looking forward with any positivity, and we'll have years of them hoping things go wrong so they can say "We told you so".
Put them and us out of our misery.
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ruth Edwards: The Iran... · 0 replies · +1 points
If the Iranians were content with brutalising their own poor people , I'm afraid we'd have to let them get on with it, as they have been for decades, but they are not. They are intent on exporting their own brand of hate-filled, totalitarian fundamentalism; at that point, the western powers are duty-bound to take decisions to limit the damage to their own interests.