Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

I've read bits and bobs of this and I'm pretty sure allot of the points I'd like to make have been well covered.

One positive I can see from all of this is that less people will go to uni. This has 2 benefits; 1) less over-crowding and a therefore a better service; and 2) more people will go to university later on, or part time. Possibly funded by employers, who will hopefully demand courses that actually fit their needs. University was largely wasted on me and I don't think I was the exception (I know lots use it to it's fullest and that is great). I think I would have got a lot more out of it now. And I remember the mature students...well being allot more mature.

On a couple of anecdotal points, I thought it was interesting chatting to my boss who went in the late 90s. He took loans out on the basis that £5k as a 20yo was a shit load of 'fun-money' in purchasing power, where as when he'd made lots of money and had no free time even interest adjusted it wouldn't buy that much. An Ozzy friend was very irate about the whole thing, saying that we didn't know how good we had it and we should stop bitching and HTFU. A US intern who is on a huuuuge scholarship estimated his fee's without the scholarship would knock on £80k, and would not have gone to his college.

I agree this is a positive in some ways, but it just means that the poeple from poor families aren't going, instead of it becoming more elitist.