Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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But with interest, I read the vehemence directed towards the bankers and the devilish desire to hang, shoot and batter them with a large piece of wood, so I ask where is the difference in that and what a few of the 'students' did during the protests ?
If the desire is for violence, even if it is togue in cheek, what makes what the 'soap dodgers' did any diferent, for they acted on their fury and took it out on inanimate objects, not people.
But whilst the desire is with some to even jokingly cause the death of others, then no blame can be put upon the furious young.
The sad thing is, the young now get to inherit this country, don't you think they should have a say in it.
But as I am a student, I will give you some heads up on just what the sitiuation is that is making me consider to quit my BA course. The college where I am at suffers the problem of funding, so much so that instead of hacking into the course materials and structure, all the lecturers have now been forced to work part time, which does not make sense when lecturers are required for student education. But to counter the loss of lecturer activity the technicians are being forced to teach. The technicians were recruited to look after the tools and materials and get things ready for lecturer classes, not teach and very few of them even have a basic pgc. The result is a technician on about 16k max is doing duties which were not in the contract, filling in for 40k lecturers who are not allowed to do their job. The result of technician tuition means the assessments are taking a nose dive, the standards are dropping fast.
I went to that college expecting it to teach me the gaps in my knowledge, but three years in I have come to the conclusion, the course has taught me nothing new, so I am left dissapointed and wondering whether I should continue, as many of my colleagues are saying, why if I can do the job already am I at college, for a BA will not serve me, especially so as the only way forward for me is self employment.
But my original plan was to get that bit of paper to prove my skills as it seems now that in this society if one does not have certification of some sorts, then no matter how good one is, industry looks the other way. Which kind of stuffs it up for all those time served people who learned their skills on the job, many of whom are on the dole. Retrain they say to do another job, then they cut the student spending as if retraining is not hard enough already, the mood is low and yes we all know 'in education' is another name for 'out of work but at least doing something useful', it is a con to keep names of the claimant statistics.
Now if that is not enough, I live on a students income, which means no heating this winter like the last and the one before it to avoid massive debt. Soap dodger, that is an accurate description when hot water one can have about once a week, so my decisions are not wholy based upon the college situation, I am 44 now and this isn't living, this is barely surviving and that is the truth for many who now feel this country is selling us short.
But if this nation is to become useful again, where does it start if anything other than an educated workforce, education is the key to this country's success and what is happening, it is not happening, the government has hit the education hard, the quality of courses shows just that, what comes aout at the end though being a pass on a course, is not the quality that could have been and with that a lower standard for the future. So that being education is there, but it will pale into insignificance compared to the likes of Germany, where they seem to believe education is the way to success, as their industry proves.
Here, everything is done on the cheap, half assed just to make it look good on the surface.
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Sorry to read all that. 
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