The students are revolting

[AtW]

You are not serious ! Houses in rural Wales with no electricity and running water can get broadband.

I define 3-4 weeks lead time to get phone line for broadband as "struggling".

3-4 days would have been ok (maybe).

[Cliphead]

You are not serious ! Houses in rural Wales with no electricity and running water can get broadband.

Total time to get a phone line and broadband installed where I live took BT nine months.

[VectraMan]

On the telly just now one of the students had a placard saying "Down with this sort of thing", and "Careful now".

Shouldn't students be learning things on a Wednesday afternoon? If they can take time off from their studies to have a riot, they can probably find time for a part-time job to pay their fees.

[pacharan]

Shouldn't students be learning things on a Wednesday afternoon?

What sort of an establishment did you go to where there were lectures on a Wednesday afternoon? Wednesday afternoon is games innit!

[MarillionFan]

Never really understood the whole 'student demo' thing. Me and the lads just used to go to the Mez and play pool. Least you could get a table.

[Zippy]

What sort of an establishment did you go to where there were lectures on a Wednesday afternoon? Wednesday afternoon is games innit!

It used to be called a university and if you were doing science you had lectures on a Wednesday afternoon.
We had to do our protests and sit-ins at the weekends.

[Incognito]

That's hardly fair. Can I assume that like myself you benefitted from free higher education? Investing in the future via funding higher education with public money is surely one of the best uses of tax payer money? The government could have chosen to increase funding for higher education, but instead chose to increase spending on security etc 'to stop the terrorists'.

Complete and utter bollocks, the vast majority of people go on to further education for purely selfish reasons, none of this 'investing in the future' crap. Why should my taxes pay for someone to go on to do an economics degree to then earn a six figure salary for the rest of their life. If they want the increased salary then they have to be prepared to pay for it (either at the time or deferred).

Equally, why should my taxes go on some oik to lounge about pissed at Uni for three years doing History or some such to then go into a career in IT. What is the relevance in that? How does that 'invest in the future'.

Further Education is not a ******* right as some oik had on his placard today.

Only skilled shortages should be state funded. Simple.

[d000hg]

It used to be called a university and if you were doing science you had lectures on a Wednesday afternoon.
We had to do our protests and sit-ins at the weekends.

I thought it was only my university where Wednesday afternoon had no lectures, obviously it's more common.

I heard a radio quote from some bod "the government's living in a dream if they think cutting funding and raising costs won't mean some people aren't able to go to university".

GOOD. Not everyone's supposed to go to university. If your career won't benefit, don't go!

[Alf W]

Why should my taxes pay for someone to go on to do an economics degree to then earn a six figure salary for the rest of their life.

Someone else paid for your education. You're paying for their retirement and health care later in life. What goes around comes around.

[Incognito]

Someone else paid for your education. You're paying for their retirement and health care later in life. What goes around comes around.

Someone paid for my primary and secondary education. I'm paying for my own degree through the OU thank you very much.

I have no objection to funding those who go onto benefit society, so teachers, nurses, social workers, etc. But come on, this is a capitalist society, if you want to get ahead then you have to be prepared to slog it a little rather than have everything handed to you on a plate.