The disgraceful anarchic scenes at yesterday's "student" protest did nothing to further any just cause the students may have had.
This is an issue in which I am pulled two ways.
I feel it is ironic that those in power from wealthy families had their education paid for but expect students to incur large debts nowadays.
When I was a student the poorest were better off than the more affluent as they had large grants in addition to their free education.
In recent years the misguided policy of making a degree obligatory even though its quality and subject suspect has caused a huge increase in student numbers and university costs. We do not need 50% of kids to have a degree and as is well known many subjects are worthless to employers.
One woman stated on television yesterday that many would not earn £21,ooo per year after qualifying in "arts" subjects, a good indication of the value of their "degrees"
Education is too important to be used as a means of keeping the young off the unemployment lists. It should be an investment in our national future and students guided towards subjects the nation needs. If the subject a student wants to take is of no use to the country it should receive no subsidy and that student encouraged to take another subject if they are capable.
However the fact is that many are not really capable of doing worthwhile degrees and therein lies the solution.
Scrap all the non essential courses thus cutting the number of students by 50% and subsidising those courses which bring a return on our national investment. Media studies sport subjects and other non academic subjects may be interesting and people may like doing them. Fine but do them at your own expense as they have no value in the market place or to the nation.
I used to like sex but did not expect to be subsidised in my efforts.
The increased competition for those courses on offer would raise standards and make us more competitive internationally.
HOWEVER even the expensive mediocre educational shambles could be financed if the government cut its pledge on foreign aid, the EU, financing bankers and exiting the Afghan war, and they know it. If they don't they must be stupid.
I believe all this dumbing down of standards and the many Mickey Mouse courses conducted by left wing lecturers is part of a scheme to indoctrinate the less able students with left wing and anti British political opinions more compatible with "The New World Order" so beloved by our ruling classes. This was shown in the vandalism of our public buildings yesterday and the desecration of our memorials to our war dead and national heroes.
You can see in what contempt this scum holds our country.
Of course not all the vandalism nor even most was perpetrated by students.
Many of the worst outrages were committed by Cameron's attack dogs,his UAF and SWP rabble. It is ironic that these dogs turned on their sponsors, and notable how few arrests were made.
Imagine a BNP rally which descended into such chaos. The jails would have been full.
How to stop future outrages?
Simples. Charge the universities for the costs of this mayhem forcing them to restrict further the number of so called students they admit, and expel any student guilty of mindless vandalism.
Ensure that crime does not pay.
Whatever your complaint attacking our cenotaph is inexcusable.
