Barmy NuLab Education

One of today’s big news stories is that universities want to increase the tuition fees charge from around a maximum of £3000 up to £5000. Now let’s get to the root of this problem.

In 1997 NuLab came in shouting ‘education, education, education’, a mantra that looked good and was unceasingly reported by the craven media. Interesting, therefore, that one of their first acts was to tax students for their then free education.

Why did they do this you ask? Because they thought that 50% of the population should go to university and they did not have enough dosh to spend on education for this to happen. So they taxed us a bit more, as is their way.

But let me ask some fundamental questions: Should 50% of the population go to university? Are 50% of the population bright enough to go to university? Does UK plc need 50% of its workforce educated up to degree level? And these three questions are even more pertinent when you are in a recession. Let’s tackle them one by one.

Should 50% of the population go to university? Short answer, no. Because the country cannot afford this seductive aim, which means that students have to be taxed, which means that graduates now start their working career with around £30k of debt. And as universities are today pointing out, even that is not enough dosh to run the system.

Are 50% of the population bright enough to go to university? Again, the short answer is no. Because to achieve this percentage, you have to dumb down the entrance exams, viz the debasing of the A level gold standard, which is now so worthless that good schools, one by one, are moving over to the International Baccalaureate system. Because in order to get courses easy enough for those that should not be there, we end up inventing utterly stupid degrees in golf (Lincoln), science fiction (Glamorgan), belly dancing (Falmouth) and Beckham (Staffordshire) for example.

Does UK plc need 50% of its workforce educated up to degree level? Again, no. Do you need a degree to work in a call centre? Do you need a degree to be a secretary? And that my friends is where the lower end of the university spectrum end up.

Once again, we see NuLab driven by its desire for Lefty social engineering lying to us proles, spinning their 50% target as brilliant social mobility when in fact they are raising kids expectations way too high, only for them to be dashed in the local call centre. And this was before the recession kicked in.