Education.

[johnny9fingers]

So students are rioting in the streets of London because they will be forced to pay increasing amounts for university education.

And our present generation of university-educated leaders, captains of industry, parliamentary legislators, bankers, etc all benefitted from free university education.

Given the fact that it was our generation (40+ somethings) who screwed the pooch: why shouldn't it be our generation that pays for it.

I think making all those who benefitted from free university education in previous generations pay for it now would be far fairer than forcing our children to pay for our mistakes. I know any such legislation would be retrospective, but a graduate tax on those generations that benefitted from free university education in the past might go some way towards redressing our generation's total fuck up of a system that had worked until we started providing degree courses in origami, and came close to bankrupting our economy with the creative mathematics that is derivatives.

Retrospective graduate tax for folk who got their degrees during the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's? Fairer by far.

Comments

[shoarthing.livejournal.com]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3339&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=81

[pastorlenny.livejournal.com]

That was a good LOL.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Some good points.

In our youth, as we know, you needed 5 'O' levels to become a solicitor (rather than a first from Oxbridge), you could 'Sit your Dinners' with 2 'A' levels (for those who know what that means), and teacher-training colleges accepted folk with 'A' levels too.

But this insane insistence that everybody needs a degree has contributed to the overspend of the public purse by a great amount.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I think you're too good for this country, and it doesnt deserve you :)

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Crap. In my youth my sins were both magnificent and magnificently selfish....of which, alas, there are only echoes now.

But these wankers of politicians who witter on about responsibility never seem to think that they, or the generation to which they belong, are responsible for anything. Responsibility is always for other people.

Shitheads.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

oh I -wish- I lived in the system that was over there.
instead, I'm living with being an unhireable "dropout" because I couldn't afford to stay in university, and no one will hire a programmer without a degree.

I'm agreeing with you.