HPC001
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There's truth to this.
Too many going to University, which is an overrated educational experience. I went. It was like putting a silk hat on a pig, doing a Master's Degree would have just applied the lipstick.
Ok, I'll quit then and be on the dole competing with 269 other applicants for a job, except they'll have degrees and I won't.
The majority need to be leaving school at 16 and doing college day release, if there were the jobs and the industry . . . which . . . there probably would be, but for a number of factors including having a skilled and experienced (from the age of yoof) workforce.Except there aren't that many training programs...
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Would you prevent someone with a lot of money from paying for more advanced medical treatment on the grounds that it's not fair if the same treatment isn't available to everyone?
Wouldn't be a problem if the NHS was turned into a worker-owned enterprise...
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Meanwhile I heard of couples that were in genuine difficulty getting refused. Even a young woman with a history of physical abuse and rape against her.
I've said it before, but the benefits system is not designed to help you. Either you're refused or its a lifelong welfare trap\on the state's leash.
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Slumlord is a better term - £1100 just for a room deposit?
£500 deposit, £500 first month's rent and £100 for credit check\reference checks. £500pcm is the maximum Haringey would allocate for a room under my circumstances.
As I'm not in a priority category the council is free to leave me to rot.
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You just posted on here old chap, so are probably guilty of exactly what he suggested(as I am).
Am I not allowed to take a meal break then? Or do I need to spend all day of every day begging people for a job? You'll notice my postcount is pretty low...
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With what? Like a benefits system you mean.......errrrrr......like we already have in place?
Which I am ineligible for under the current rules... I had to take out a loan which was a last resort. Don't start me on the realities of claiming housing benefit (LHA doesn't exist here for some reason)
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I am in a similar situation, running a little business (comms equipment hire and sales) and think about hiring someone, but then imagine that person sat there p1ssing about on Facebook and such, doing the minimum they can.....
It is easier if you don't get into the hassle of employing someone, which is sad in a way.
Thanks for the stereotype
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well no actually benefits are provided at a level which is intended to support the recipient with no external family support , if you are getting support from your family that's worth something to you then you need to decide if you want to pay some of the rent yourself from your other benefits. otherwise you are going to have to move from chelsea to reading or possibly even think about getting a job
In the interim, would you oppose supporting young people genuinely down on their luck, who have no other means of support and were put of work in this recession?
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Last time I was on welfare, the best room I could find that accepted DSS was in Finsbury Park , and the landlord wanted £1100 upfront which I couldn't afford
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That's really what I meant by logistically impossible. At that price it would probably be cheaper to commute from the London suburbs by taxi. Certainly the tube fares can be whacked up a fair bit before they start to become uncompetitive relative to that sort of parking charge.
Or we could stop cramming ourselves into London like dumb sheep.
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Schemes of this sort were set up in the 90's recession and I think a lot of people did benefit from them- the problem is that they do cost money to run- It's cheaper to let people rot on the dole.
Of course we could privatise the arrangement, allowing commercial companies access to a large unpaid workforce- this set up works well in the US- they call it the Penal system over there I believe. ( It works so well, in fact, that judges are now bribed to convict to ensure the availability of free labour to the privatised prisons.)
Not heard of New Deal?
Just for the record, I do unpaid charity work and I'm in the middle of trying to improve my skills (which, thanks to lack of employer sponsored training, costs a fortune)...
I could quite easily become homeless if my landlord decides not to tolerate unemployed tenants (no, I am not eligible for benefits before anyone starts)
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TfL raised the fares by 20% in January already, b*****ds. It isn't uncommon for a day's travel in London to cost in excess of £10 if you set out before 9.30am.
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Student doing unpaid work (at a charity).
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Explain yourself. I suggest you have a look at the OECD Education At A Glance report before answering btw.
What I'm saying is some institutions would rather absorb the money for nonsense degrees than offer something useful for less overall cost...
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale, III, iii
Edit: ignore, was on profile
Just like the old University colleges in the 1890s where most of the Russell Group started!
Or, more recently, the monitoring by the CNAA (Council for National Academic Awards) whose demise signalled the worst of the post 1992 dumbing down.
Indeed, Oxford's Dean was pathetically asking for more government money and cutting their own grants to less well off students there. At this rate it will be known better as the destination for idiots with rich parents rather than a centre of excellence...
Much as I dislike the current system, more government involvement is not the answer. Universities already use this kind of government funding as a substitute for competitiveness. Not to mention the other private sector organisations doing well out of programs like New Deal.
The degree I'm studying myself is 50% vocational and 50% traditional, with some management stuff thrown in for good measure... I wasn't able to abuse the grant system anyway as I was deemed ineligible. Unlike the child of a single parent doing Psychology at a third-rate institution like Roehampton...
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To be honest, I don't think the problem is ex-polys per se. I think it is the primary and secondary education system in Britain.
HE is being expected to mop up after the failures of this part of the system -- failing that, they are being expected to operate in a climate that is, at best, wide of the traditional mark. Not only are universities now being expected to offer remedial classes, but they are suffering from the failure of British schools to instil stable adult ethics in young people in terms of attitude, perspective, expectation, behaviour and achievement.
One thing I have noticed is that today's undergrads are wildly different in attitude to previous cohorts in the 90s. Today's undergraduates seem very dependent and infantile (many struggle with self-directed learning), whilst, at the same time, their expectations are unrealistic and their attitudes can be arrogant, smug and rather obnoxious. In short, they are still teenagers, rather than young adults, and this phenomenon is relatively new.
I do wonder how some of our senior academics that teach UG actually cope with the situation. I've observed lectures and seminars given by world-leading academic researchers where the attitudes of the UG students present really tried my patience: no wonder so many professors will only teach PGT.
Parenting isn't their job, that responsibility lies with the boomer\Gen X crowd, depending on how old the students are of course.
Or it could be that every generation whines about the next one as a scapegoat for society's ills...
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pardon my ignorance but when you say HE,what do you mean? IS that where you'd do HNDs etc?
why are HE establishments more reliant on student fees than say Uni's?How much are student fees for the courses you offer?Are they topped up by the govt?
HE = higher education. The entire sector. Whether they be higher education colleges or universities. In fact aren't places like Oxbridge made up of multiple "colleges" anyway?
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I downgraded my accomodation recently and I expect the situation to get worse before it gets better.
Absolutely **** all except the odd warehouse contract around here...anything else is swamped with hundreds of applicants. Hell, even the warehouse work is, except there's less bull**** to get through before reaching the actual job.
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I've worked in corporate financial sector and also academia
one noticeable thing is that in academia, certainly where I have been, they are not prepared to pay going rates for the competent geeky techies with requisite HP, MS, Oracle, whatever, certifications, mainly because these would get paid the same as a professor, upsetting the perceived professional hierachy
instead they seem to have internally promoted techies who really aren't up to much and do indeed take an age to sort simple things out, and would never hack it in the private sector. just my experience.
Doesn't seem to matter, there are more people than jobs in the market so they'll get away with it. Also, you should know by now that nepotism is how the vast majority get into those jobs...
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And if you had been taught competently in your state secondary school; which, sadly, the vast majority of today's state school leavers have not. We're having to teach them core numeracy, literacy and cognitive skills in universities which, when I was at school (I took 'A' levels in 1992), were taught and assessed there.
I went to a pretty **** state school (wasn't allowed a choice at a time) yet I can read, write, and construct an argument perfectly well thank you. I'm tired of people tarring all university students with the same brush. Yup, there are too many of them but the penny will drop when they have to repay the "free money" they were given to fund it. Their parents aren't particularly bright either in making the same assumption.
I'm probably wasting my time though since anyone from Generation Y is automatically stupid
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Everyone? Like they managed that before
Even with 5 kids in tow my friend (a widow) was waiting a year for somewhere to live (while stuck in a B&B with shared facilities)...
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so to drive in a safe and sensible manner having consideration for others
is akin to giving Cameron a BJ ?
maybe when your old enough to drive you will have matured a little
Driving in a safe manner =! obeying an arbitrary speed limit that may or may not be correct for the road and conditions.
Do you really think punitive fines are the best way to get people to cooperate? Time for a more sensible, less authoritarian approach perhaps?
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Absolutely...Actually, lets brand everyone who's on benefits, and those who have committed a crime, no matter how minor. Of course there are the odd ones who try and get everything they can off the social, but on the whole, the majority of ppl do want to work..
If the system was organised differently these unemployed people would not be surplus. There are plenty of skilled individuals who are out of work right now as well...
From the view of the existing paradigm, as a powerful person, you're probably going to be thinking of doing away with these "extra" people as they have more time to oppose you.
Let's look at an example of MEDC manufacturing:
A large clothing manufacturer in New Zealand collapses. The official explanation for this and the resulting loss of several hundred jobs, is that cheap Chinese production undercut it. Very little emphasis is placed on the fact the owner racked up debts of NZ$120m using the company as security. It certainly wasn't spent on the company itself.
As for cheap Chinese production, when quality is looked at, there isn't much in it versus equivalents in NZ. What also isn't apparent is that retailers sold the latter at high margins in lower volumes. This is great for the retailers of course but not so good for domestic mass production...
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things like benefit payments form part of a ballance of interests. Take away that ballance and people may well decide they no longer wish to co-operate
I think, the more clearly the problem is understood the less likely the people will put up with it
Or we can start making more of our own stuff and trade it between us, cutting out the government entirely. It's being done with "time dollars" in the US already.
The Educonomy:graduates Have A 1 In 270 Chance Of Getting A Job.
in House prices and the economy
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I forgot my tongue smiley, I was being sarcastic