Don't we all?
* and no, I don't mean as a dartboard
That is ultimately going to be Labour’s problem going into the next GE if they keep this direction of travel. I pointed this out to the campaigner who knocked on my door. The closer they align themselves to Sunak the less relevant voting labour will become for many. Makes no odds to me in many respects as I’m tactically voting at the next GE but it will to some.
So you're saying teachers are overpaid then despite wanting to hold the country to ransom for more?
So you're saying teachers are overpaid then despite wanting to hold the country to ransom for more?
And if you calculate the hourly rate, it's even higher!
*excl marking and lesson planning of course
School age education is fucked due to poor funding and even worse recruitment and retention. How many years now has the government missed its trainee teacher targets now? And when teachers do strike Starmer is nowhere to be seen - he has no answers to solve these problems.
I agree in principle BUT we also have to consider that if everyone is doing this, who's doing all the jobs that don't require a uni education?It's interesting that so many countries don't seem to struggle to offer free university education (partial list linked to below).
This isn't an either/or thing, imho. We don't need to dilute funding to other areas of education or the NHS to do it, it is (as with most elements of public spending) a political choice. I'd suggest that a better educated populace, and not just in STEM subjects, is better for the country as a whole. Additionally, the provision of that education in itself drives employment in all other sectors of the economy.
I know something that's often been assumed is that having a student loan won't impact a person's ability to get a mortgage. It absolutely will - net monthly income with appropriate deductions for student loans is a key decision in affordability calculations.
As a vague aside, if you study until you're 21, you've still got another 47 years of productive, tax-paying work ahead to look forward to. If you earn more money because you're better educated, you'll end up paying back the government in additional taxation anyway!
6 European Countries With Free College Tuition
Some countries in Europe, such as Norway, Finland, and Germany, provide free or low-cost university education for all students.www.investopedia.com
He’d probably ban Maths if a red wall focus group told him to.
Would go down very well with my Year 11s
Don't know, but it's the type of thing you expect to be called something like a 'technical college' rather than university. When people think of uni they (traditionally) have tended to think of it as lecture halls and intellectual people discussing big questions. With the massive expansions over the last generation that perception has been diluted a bit, though I still think people would consider them to be more about the 'thinking' than the 'doing'.
Science courses, Medicine, Engineering etc are practical subjects I'd argue
I agree, though I think that, to varying degrees, they're perceived as lots of lectures and theory with a practical element. The real practical parts are considered to be when the medical students work in hospitals or the engineering students get put on placements/internships etc. which, despite often being part of the course, in people's mind are separate.
This. Uni fees I’m not so bothered about, especially as I’ve had to pay them
My course was about 50/50 between lab work and lectures. Moved to about 60/40 in my final year and I did an industrial placement too.
I'm a bit scared that I seem to be moving to an area where Andrea Leadsom is the MP...Are all the wards and council spots up for grabs in Coventry today?
Where I live in Northamptonshire we have no local elections at all - last year we had a full set of elections for new councils after the Conservatives bankrupted the entire County, and duly rewarded them by electing them straight back into power.
She seems one of the moderates around there tbf!
What’s he saying?
aye, absolute disaster for the tories
The motorcade was so vast you thought you'd be there all night long
The important thing is whether it shows convincingly that Labour is likely to win sufficient seats to win a majority. I'm not convinced based on local experience (knife edge Tory seat) where local Tories have sadly mostly kept their seats even with a big turnout.
