Oh well, it was nice and comfortable

[SantaClaus]

Its a one-horse economy now anyway. What we need are really really good bankers.

Nah, we need more MPs and a bigger expenses pot.

[Andy2]

Its a one-horse economy now anyway. What we need are really really good bankers.

The bankers have already finished their good job and taken bonuses

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Most current UK degrees are crap anyway - you only have to look at the level of ignorance on CUK.

Basically they should close down all the crappy ex-polys (with thir tulipy degrees) and concentrate the money on the top notch ones.
If that means fewer people get "degrees" so much the better, perhaps the lower classes would be better employed getting apprenticeships in something useful than wasting time with meedjah, graphic design and communications "degrees" and the like.

The NL mantra is that everybody should be able to get a degree. Pity about what that does to standards, funding, debt ......

Edit: but don't expect the Tories to fix that. As with Grammar Schools, which they were happy to kill off because it's not where their kind of people go, so a renamed poly is not either. So they'll be happy to keep them, and send their kids to good Oxbridge colleges as usual.

[lilelvis2000]

Its a one-horse economy now anyway. What we need are really really good bankers.

[TykeMerc]

mash_perspective

[BrilloPad]

While it lasted

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...britain-suffer

I might have to work for a living.

I am sure under a Tory government all will be fine.

[Moscow Mule]

Eh?

Based on number of unis in the top 100?

[Moscow Mule]

Perhaps it's time to admit that sending 50% of the population to university simply isn't viable and we are better off putting 25% on the dole instead...

[sasguru]

Most current UK degrees are crap anyway - you only have to look at the level of ignorance on CUK.

Basically they should close down all the crappy ex-polys (with thir tulipy degrees) and concentrate the money on the top notch ones.
If that means fewer people get "degrees" so much the better, perhaps the lower classes would be better employed getting apprenticeships in something useful than wasting time with meedjah, graphic design and communications "degrees" and the like.

[Sysman]

Britain's higher education system is superb – second only to the US, with 18 of our universities in the world's top 100 – and recognised across the globe as a gold standard.

Eh?

[zeitghost]

While it lasted

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...britain-suffer

I might have to work for a living.