UNI Rant

[Kezzieboy]

Fair play I thought you was in medicine. Obviously not

No your correct I don't but you still can't not deny my original point of uni does not guarantee a well paying job. Fair play if you have been working but have you not seen how many unemployed people we have in this country? Why do we need more and more highly educated people to do a job that doesn't exist!?
Or do you genuinely believe that the UK would be a better place if everyone was highly educated because if so, that brings me back to the point of everyone had there place and if everyone does prestigious, high payed jobs, who's going to do things like empty your bins?

No, it doesn't, but apart from the minority that are abusing the system (as Lewis rightly points out), I believe you DO leave university as a better rounded person compared to 3 years of menial, minimum wage labour. That's not to say that apprenticeships etc don't offer the same improvements, and I do believe we should be pushing the alternatives to university, as it really isn't for everyone, and the way they put it at college it seemed like a choice between going to university and being successful, or being a bin-man/toilet cleaner/tesco till tart etc.

But I do genuinely believe that we should be pushing for an increasingly qualified (notice not using the word 'educated') work-force, and I still struggle to believe that we'll reach a point where there will be nobody left to do menial work (again, as Lewis says, most of these jobs are done by migrant workers, as people would rather sit on the bloody dole anyway), and if we do, by that point we'll probably have come up with some sort of automatic system because of all the engineering graduates



Oooh, also worth noting, there is still massive competition to get a 'good' degree, I know for a fact there were more than 2 people per place applying for my course (had to give the interviewer a blowie, but it was worth it)