Good assessment Callum. It’s a complete mess. I don’t agree with higher education for the most part. There are very few real world jobs that really need a graduate education. Most jobs start at the bottom and work your way up getting on the job training.
I can see from an employers point of view a well educated person is on paper the best option. But honestly, most jobs a school lever could do. With on the job training. Of course there are plenty of jobs that would benefit from a graduate education and skills. Like chemical or medicine and law. But again the business can choose to invest in school levers to put through the course just as much as the individual.
To me, further education is an opt out of work. At a time when those aged 16 are able to learn to work. Easier do then at 21 when they have learned not to work but to expect and demand a better pay or a better job. Jobs like that are not a given. Only for those who shine and excel at university. Most pupils obviously don’t shine or excel. They mostly get lesser courses with degrees of a lesser calibre.
They are paying themselves to avoid work. And they are mostly backing themselves as outsiders in the race rather than favourites to achieve at top level.
I really think school levers can see that universities are not the dream. They debt us and can be a lifetime of payment.
For me, I think the emphasis must be on a great school education. That’s most important. And a university place for the brightest and best as it’s always been before Blair. We need a system fit for purpose. And a workforce ready for work, not enjoying themselves with s load of our money!
All that said. I do think the cost is wrong. I think they were mis sold the debt and the promise of a better job. And the gist of borrowing is that extortionate. All of which is mis selling.
The system we had was fit for purpose. Prior to Blair. By all means have higher education for jobs that deserve them. But let the job come first. Get the job and let the business pay if they want to. Or they can teach them themselves on the job without a costly trip to university.
It’s for us to pay for a good education. Up to working age. 16-18. After that we should invest freely in those who are academic. And those who are sent by employers. But not the masses.
The reason university graduates can’t get well paid jobs is that by the time the leave, other contemporary age workers have equal status! As they have left and worked hard to attain the same level, by in work training snd experience. Except for those jobs that warrant the knowledge like law or medicine or chemicals.
Life living it and working it breeds education. You don’t have to go to university to attain those skills. And life long living means life long learning. Learning doesent stop once you leave school or university.
Good assessment Callum. It’s a complete mess. I don’t agree with higher education for the most part. There are very few real world jobs that really need a graduate education. Most jobs start at the bottom and work your way up getting on the job training.
I can see from an employers point of view a well educated person is on paper the best option. But honestly, most jobs a school lever could do. With on the job training. Of course there are plenty of jobs that would benefit from a graduate education and skills. Like chemical or medicine and law. But again the business can choose to invest in school levers to put through the course just as much as the individual.
To me, further education is an opt out of work. At a time when those aged 16 are able to learn to work. Easier do then at 21 when they have learned not to work but to expect and demand a better pay or a better job. Jobs like that are not a given. Only for those who shine and excel at university. Most pupils obviously don’t shine or excel. They mostly get lesser courses with degrees of a lesser calibre.
They are paying themselves to avoid work. And they are mostly backing themselves as outsiders in the race rather than favourites to achieve at top level.
I really think school levers can see that universities are not the dream. They debt us and can be a lifetime of payment.
For me, I think the emphasis must be on a great school education. That’s most important. And a university place for the brightest and best as it’s always been before Blair. We need a system fit for purpose. And a workforce ready for work, not enjoying themselves with s load of our money!
All that said. I do think the cost is wrong. I think they were mis sold the debt and the promise of a better job. And the gist of borrowing is that extortionate. All of which is mis selling.
The system we had was fit for purpose. Prior to Blair. By all means have higher education for jobs that deserve them. But let the job come first. Get the job and let the business pay if they want to. Or they can teach them themselves on the job without a costly trip to university.
It’s for us to pay for a good education. Up to working age. 16-18. After that we should invest freely in those who are academic. And those who are sent by employers. But not the masses.
The reason university graduates can’t get well paid jobs is that by the time the leave, other contemporary age workers have equal status! As they have left and worked hard to attain the same level, by in work training snd experience. Except for those jobs that warrant the knowledge like law or medicine or chemicals.
Life living it and working it breeds education. You don’t have to go to university to attain those skills. And life long living means life long learning. Learning doesent stop once you leave school or university.