Education, education, education!
Jul. 4th, 2009 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandriawebYes that's what my govenment said years ago when it was voted in.
And in those years (a lot of which I spent milling around the youth service because I was home educated) they encouraged (read as put pressure onto schools and youth services to pressure us) us to go to university (ie: told us if we didn't get university qualifications we'd end up as bin men). Now that my generation are finally old enough, they realise that "whoops, can't fund all these people we've stressed silly all the way through school".
Now as you know I started university last Septemeber, so I should be safe right? WRONG!
Here's the insane bit, apparently next year the tuition fees are going up, never been a problem before because my student loan covers my fees, only apparently the loan isn't going up. So it's only going to partially fund my fees? Great I won't even be able to start my third year if this happens...Bloody fabulous, nice one just build people up for a fall why don't you?
I feel for anybody trying to get in this year, I really do. From what I can tell it's sheer insanity. I've just watched the minister for secondry education blathering on about the situation on the news. He's a really bad liar by the way, whole attempt at slow, calming voice combined with eyes that darted about all over the place and hands waving about everywhere.
Basicaly apparently this year there are 40,000 more people applying for university than last year but the govenment can only fund 10,000 more, only 3,000 of which are full time places.
3,000 students? Are you insane? That's like ONE, maybe TWO universites worth of first years!
It would have been funny, you know if it wasn't real.
He was sat there talking in circles and contradicting himself, 'twas insane.
"This is happening because of a budget cut...No there hasn't been any cut in budget" then the best one ever was when he said that "Everyone that applied and gets the grades will still have a university place". Right ok then, how does that work? Surely if there's 40,000 more applicants, then there's going to be more than 10,000 actually get the grades? What are they going to do then?
The best of all was when the interviewer got a little bit teed off at this daft minister and told him that people who'd studied at 6th form were potentially going to end up on the dole.
"Oh no," he said laughing, "They'll just either go back to college, apply again next year, get jobs or take a gap year."
Yeah sure thing.
Had I not managed to get in last year I could have (and probably would have even though it ment spending another year listening to the weeble winge on about how she isn't getting anough attention while I was gritting my teeth because she still owed me money) gone back to college and taken a year long Foundation degree and then applied again next year.
If I hadn't gotten in second time I don't know what I would have done, I know I'd be feeling like a failure though.
Get jobs? Uh yeah, where? How? We're having a ressesion you know? There aren't very many jobs around at the moment and because so many bussinesses are going bust there's an awful lot more people fighting over the jobs that there are, and what do you have to do for money while you can't find a job? Yeah that's right apply for job seeker's allowance, yep you guessed it "The dole".
Gap year? Don't make me laugh, you know how long it takes to get funding to go traveling when you don't have any money?
I wanted to have a gap year before I started uni, but when I looked into it it turns out I should have started trying to get funding when I started college (three years before applying for uni).
ARGH! I wish someone would just whack some sence into these people!
And in those years (a lot of which I spent milling around the youth service because I was home educated) they encouraged (read as put pressure onto schools and youth services to pressure us) us to go to university (ie: told us if we didn't get university qualifications we'd end up as bin men). Now that my generation are finally old enough, they realise that "whoops, can't fund all these people we've stressed silly all the way through school".
Now as you know I started university last Septemeber, so I should be safe right? WRONG!
Here's the insane bit, apparently next year the tuition fees are going up, never been a problem before because my student loan covers my fees, only apparently the loan isn't going up. So it's only going to partially fund my fees? Great I won't even be able to start my third year if this happens...Bloody fabulous, nice one just build people up for a fall why don't you?
I feel for anybody trying to get in this year, I really do. From what I can tell it's sheer insanity. I've just watched the minister for secondry education blathering on about the situation on the news. He's a really bad liar by the way, whole attempt at slow, calming voice combined with eyes that darted about all over the place and hands waving about everywhere.
Basicaly apparently this year there are 40,000 more people applying for university than last year but the govenment can only fund 10,000 more, only 3,000 of which are full time places.
3,000 students? Are you insane? That's like ONE, maybe TWO universites worth of first years!
It would have been funny, you know if it wasn't real.
He was sat there talking in circles and contradicting himself, 'twas insane.
"This is happening because of a budget cut...No there hasn't been any cut in budget" then the best one ever was when he said that "Everyone that applied and gets the grades will still have a university place". Right ok then, how does that work? Surely if there's 40,000 more applicants, then there's going to be more than 10,000 actually get the grades? What are they going to do then?
The best of all was when the interviewer got a little bit teed off at this daft minister and told him that people who'd studied at 6th form were potentially going to end up on the dole.
"Oh no," he said laughing, "They'll just either go back to college, apply again next year, get jobs or take a gap year."
Yeah sure thing.
Had I not managed to get in last year I could have (and probably would have even though it ment spending another year listening to the weeble winge on about how she isn't getting anough attention while I was gritting my teeth because she still owed me money) gone back to college and taken a year long Foundation degree and then applied again next year.
If I hadn't gotten in second time I don't know what I would have done, I know I'd be feeling like a failure though.
Get jobs? Uh yeah, where? How? We're having a ressesion you know? There aren't very many jobs around at the moment and because so many bussinesses are going bust there's an awful lot more people fighting over the jobs that there are, and what do you have to do for money while you can't find a job? Yeah that's right apply for job seeker's allowance, yep you guessed it "The dole".
Gap year? Don't make me laugh, you know how long it takes to get funding to go traveling when you don't have any money?
I wanted to have a gap year before I started uni, but when I looked into it it turns out I should have started trying to get funding when I started college (three years before applying for uni).
ARGH! I wish someone would just whack some sence into these people!
