£21,875 for a degree that will be tomorrow’s fish and chip paper
As you read this Tony Blair will either be packing up Leo’s play things and leaving Either way the crisis in higher education will not change. Today’s degrees will still be tomorrow’s fish and chip paper.
It is a Herculean injustice that this government seems to want at every opportunity to downgrade those young people, who go into and are inclined towards vocational training. They talk as if there is something wrong with them. The simple and solitary fact is that half the country’s population does not need a University education. Writing witty and sophistic essays on the correct way to plane wood is doing them no good and drains the rest of the University system.
Graduate recruitment is falling at its highest rate than ever before and there are fewer and fewer good jobs. And yet the graduate recruitment marketplace is being deluged with students enthusiastically wielding their 2:2 in Psychology when they would perhaps be better off welding steel. They would have been better off using the three years to develop real skills through apprenticeship and training. They would have been better off under a government that did not place practical training a poor second place next to a University career.
Ultimately, the exclusive kudos a degree used to hold has been snatched from the clutches of a few and diplomas now hang next to the picture of Aunt Geraldine above every fireplace whether in a council house or country mansion.
The government is steering along a course towards higher education meltdown and there really is no reverse gear. Not only for the policybut for the many generations who will start their young adult lives straddled with choking debt. It is just down to luck that we’ve all got off so lightly.
Think on.
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