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true, but it also shouldn't be sold to people who don't have any use for it.
At the moment, it is becoming a social stigma to not go to university, in certain areas of society, which is actually detrimental to everyone, because, from my point of view at least, the cost of making education available to everyone seems to be that the first thing to suffer is the education itself.
I'm not advocating educational nazism. I also don't consider myself right wing, at all. But I can only comment on what I experience. Maybe I am wrong to generalize so wildly, but hey, I am a dick like that sometimes.
So let me narrow down my vitriol slighty, to stuff I can comment on with absolute certainty:
University of the Arts London, purportedly the biggest art school in the world, is failing to provide an adequate pedagogical model to a large proportion of it's students, across most of it's disciplines and colleges.
Students are encouraged to go into HE in this country, when it provides little use for them once they leave, and burdens them with a lot of debt (the amount of which is increasing year after year - fees have gone up by about 70 or 80 quid every year since I started my course).
There should be a MUCH MUCH higher emphasis on apprenticeships in many creative disciplines, (and probably others).
And most of all, I think it's desperately wrong that the driving force to increase the number of people in higher education to 50+% is not education. It's money.