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Originally Posted by Sparkle
In my opinion, university education is a necessity of society. Everyone benefits from education. Just imagine what life would be like without technology and modern medicine ? It would be like being back in the stone age. In fact, we've always had an equivalent of many of the professions we have today. Professions such as merchants, soldiers, bankers, salesman, etc - even going back thousands of years. The main difference is the education/knowledge base.
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University education is necessary; universal university education (or anything even approaching it) definitely is not.
When Labour started an ideological drive to get 50% of all young people into university, the universities started dreaming up worthless courses to keep them all busy when they arrived.
We now have vast numbers of people who are highly qualified in nothing much at all, and half the population of Poland repairing our burst pipes. We need to recognise that people are different, their educational needs are different. Achieving equality does not consist in making everybody the same.