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Originally Posted by Biker Biggles
Witness the developing nations like India and China who are pulling out all the stops to get people educated to fuel their economies.
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Point taken but the two countries you mention are not a good example, they have a far smaller proportion of their populations that have a further education, and are extremely unlikely ever to even try to fund FE to the level that the UK enjoys. Much further education in this country has become at best esoteric, and at worst a simple unthinking extension of time in education for little value to either the recipient or our society, for some in FE it's become little more than 'just what you do'.
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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
I do think uni places need to be cut back. And hopefully from this the value of higher education would be increased.
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This is an excellent point - every extra body in your lectures is a dilution of the education you receive, if they're not serious about taking in and subsequently using that education more so.
The argument over debt is stratospherically overstated - you don't pay it back until you earn enough to do so, and you'll never get money from anywhere else at the sort of terms you'll get a student loan for.