Useless degrees

I think you're right (that we are in more agreement, than disagreement). However, I think the opportunities need to be there for anyone to give university a shot (even retards who fucked up the first 20-or-so-plus year of their education). Opportunities also need to exist for them (and everyone else, especially middle-class fuck wads) to fail.

(And the ones who fail, should have the opportunity to try again).

I agree with you on principle. However, in the long term, I don't think the world can afford this. It is too expensive for a country for 50% of it's young people to be in approx. £30,000 in debt.

What needs to change is the way education is financed (like fuck, I don't really believe that money has any place in education. Definitely not in terms of making profit). Disciplines that have a direct corrolation to an industry should be funded by that industry, with things like apprenticeships etc. Obviously, HE works for some subjects, such as medicine etc.

Education + investment = the destruction of meaningful education, and its replacement with a mediocre simulacrum designed for profit only.

Also, goodhead you didn't put any words in my mouth, i totally agree with you!