Students Kicking OFF
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- lukus_W0
Just watched a press conference on BBC news .. the situation sounds utterly deplorable. The police should be providing people with support, enabling protest to occur peacefully. If they arrive in riot gear - isn't that a provocation?
Also just heard David Cameron speak .. he sounds completely out of touch.
- no mate, if last time somebody dropped a fire extinguisher from a roof is simple common sense...maikel
- Jimbo820
Things just got serious, Prince Charles and Camilla were in their car on their way to the Royalty Variety Show when it was attacked. Covered in pant and a window smashed.
- They drop in to lend their support to the students and this happens. Scandalous.Fax_Benson
- lukus_W0
@maikel;
I see your point, but that was one person (who dropped a fire-extinguisher). I reckon if the police come to a scene expecting violence, they're probably more likely to see it ..
- yeh id agree, but maikel makes a point too...
delicate situation indeed.Hombre_Lobo_2
- yeh id agree, but maikel makes a point too...
- georgesIII0
- lol @ 3rd from right.
upside down shield, what a tool!Hombre_Lobo_2
- lol @ 3rd from right.
- Hombre_Lobo_20
i think its a very bad idea.
Making higher education more inaccessible creates a larger divide between the richer and the poorer / a larger divide between the classes.
The more inaccessible higher education is the more lower-income families there will be.
The more lower income families (and areas associated with these families) there are, the higher the crime rates will be. It has been proven time and again that there is a positive correlation between lower classes (socioeconomically speaking) and crime rates.
America is a good example, college cost far more in the US than university does in the UK (iirc) and to a lot of americans its impossible to get that amount of cash, and so they have little education and can only achieve low income jobs. Obviously they can work their way up, but naturally its a lot harder for someone with little education. And as a result there are a HUGE amount of uneducated americans that turn to crime. You only have to look at the overflowing prisons to see that.
i think these costs will only make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- *cues news articles about how we can't compete with China/India and wonder whyTheBlueOne
- "HUGE amount of uneducated americans that" think Sarah Palin is a genius.TheBlueOne
- lowimpakt0
the kids are on the ball
- Shaney0
- http://www.bbc.co.uk…Shaney
- lol. they deserve itVelocityFade
- can somebody please knock out an animated GIF from this?clearThoughts
- +1000Sneakybadger2
- TheBlueOne0
"Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, was arrested today on suspicion of violent disorder and attempted criminal damage following his involvement in the student protests in central London on Thursday."
- Jimbo820
This is pretty big news, expect to hear a lot about this in the next few days.
- DaveO0
I've not really seen too much UK news on the subject so it's difficult to see what the pundit /discussion angle is.
It's a tough argument. I only paid £3K in TOTAL for my tuition. I got a loan for £9K for living costs and that was it really. So i was lucky.
Increased tuition fees, in a way it would be a positive move. When I was at university there were a multitude of people there simply for the good time, inspired by Hollyoaks and the consensus that you MUST to go to university for the 'life experience', and the 'education is only a small part of the experience'. It's these people that cost the system its' money.
Degrees are no longer the valuable accessory they once were. Why? Every fucker's got one and few have any idea of what to do with it. An all too familiar trajectory is – Get a degree > work in a call centre while you're 'figuring out' what you want to do > wake up when you're 30 realising that you did 3 years of pointless education. I bet there are so many people out there more apt for the course but couldn't afford / weren't encouraged to go for it.
I also know plenty of people who didn't go to university and got stuck in from age 18. Super successful and intelligent, and prove that you don't NEED to go to university to become a fully rounded adult.
Education is a right. A degree (for the sake of having a degree) isn't.
- goldieboy0
Got caught up in it at Oxford Circus earlier tonight, wish I'd had my camera! They wrecked Topshop... the only shop to offer students 10% discount?!
- jetSkii0
it's 3 times as much, but no one has mentioned how it compares to other tuition costs such as America. Anyone have info?
- d_rek0
I dunno. I should have burnt something over the cost of my privatized college education. But I didn't... I was too burdened with debt afterwards to even afford gasoline or matches. =(