I'm cross about the government again.
Today it's because of this University funding business. Especially about the way in which a series of (pretty technocratic) arguments about the best way to charge tuition fees are being used to used to distract from a really dangerous proposal- setting Universities against each other in a free markets.
Henceforth we will have good Universities for people with money, and poor Universities for people without.
It's horrid, and only those with a frankly religious belief in the power of markets to make everything better would think otherwise.
But I don't want this blog to turn into a bitter whinge hole.
So I'm going to distract myself by imagining basset hounds performing various roles in society.
A basset hound helping the vulnerable onto a council mini bus for a day trip!
A basset hound putting in a shift at a Royal Mail sorting office!
A basset hound logging information about peregrine falcons in the London area! With a little doggy clipboard!
A basset hound chasing pigeons off a cricket square!
A basset hound dressing in women's clothing and "singing" Cabaret to entertain our brave fighting men and women in Afghanistan!
Feel better?
Me neither.
Not really.
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My suggestion for sorting out the education system is as follows:
ReplyDeleteAll companies operating in the UK with a revenue above an agreed turnover have to sponsor a relative amount of university places.
These places are first offered to those who would not be able to afford tuition fees, but have the academic grades to go to university.
The deal would involve the student prior to starting a course, being hired by a company (appropriate to their field of study) for, say, a period of 6 years - three years during the degree where the company pay tuition fees and a wage, and in return get the student as a member of staff for 1-2 days work a week and during holidays, so rather than having to take a low paid student job, the student has a secure financial route through college. Once they have successfully finished their studies, they then work for that company for a period of 3 years. In return the company get a graduate who immediately has experience of how the company runs.
Another question that worries me is what happens when the Basset hounds are no longer happy with simply helping out in society, and demand a university education?!