Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

We do, right up through to Higher Education level. Being a graduate is quite diluted enough by government pushing people to go to university as it is. Universities are complaining about having to remedial courses for their intakes to bring them up to standard already and far too many degrees are of little use in finding jobs.

We do not have the capability to send all our citizens to University and it is quite pointless to. Canada and the States are far more horny on degrees than we are yet charge tuition fees.

If people are doing degrees in engineering, sciences, maths and the like, where skills are in short supply and will equip them to compete with the hordes of graduates in these subjects being churned out elsewhere then definitely. Someone doing an obscure arts degree or the ever famous International Football Business Management degree not so much.

Vocational courses for those who don't have the ability to manage degree level education and financial incentives to those able to pursue a course in sciences, mathematics and engineering would surely be wiser than simply 'Go toss it off at University for 3 years doing a pointless degree no employer wants as they've about 3,000 graduates with a BA in BS applying for every job' surely?

Not that I'm an expert in education, just speaking from the POV of a taxpayer and a potential employer, one who has no degree in anything at that, though I am commencing one in October.

Originally Posted by Ravenheart

Nice article by Armando Iannucci in the Independent

Only thing.. "Turned the media into a pack of shrieking gibbons".. I thought they were like that all the time!