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MSE News: Only one third of pupils understand the new tuition fees system
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"Chris Pond from the Financial Services Authority explains what his views are on the new Financial Conduct Authority"
"Chris Pond from the Financial Services Authority explains what his views are on the new Financial Conduct Authority"
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A-level choice is pretty crucial for entry to certain degrees, after all. However, I'm not entirely sure that people in the 11-14 year old category need to fully understand how university finance works, unless its something they would need to begin preparing for at that age (which, currently, it isn't).
I personally wish MSE would stop banging the "people don't understand it" drum and instead move ahead with the "people understand it and think it stinks" message.
TBH, if you can't understand the fees system, then maybe it's best if you forgo university and leave a place free for someone with sharper skills?
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
(btw, i think everyone agrees that the new system stinks, but it's a done deal now and we're stuck with it)
Good. This country does need a well-educated work force, but I think many of those getting degrees now are wasting time and money. A degree should be something for the best and the brightest not the default option for everyone.
And this isn't intellectual snobbery, just a honest view on what would be best for both the country and those involved. The vast majority of jobs don't need a degree, so why go and get a totally irrelevant bit of paper?
It will be interesting to see how numbers enrolling and courses taken change in 2012.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
I have, thank you, several times, and in great depth.
"Those against it" seems to be close to everyone. What is it that you think they want me to think and what reason would I have for thinking it?
HMG (and you!) seem to be trying to get across the message that if you're against the new system, then that's because you don't understand it, and they then start to explain it again. MSE is just adding fuel to the "keep explaining and they'll grow to like it" fire IMO.
Sorry, don't bother explaining it again, not you, not HMG, not MSE, because I understand it in exquisite detail and have even put together a complex model in Excel that projects my 17yo daughter's likely situation though to her mid 50s. Based on this, I hate every scintilla of the new scheme.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.