I've noticed with a mild chagrin that I ceased to update this blog properly after beginning to run Inspired-Quill with any sense of stubborness as to its regularity of updates. I can't promise I'll start to post regularly again, but at least I haven't forgotten this blog entirely.
So, according to the copy of the Daily Telegraph I have on my new iPhone (birthday present from my auntie and uncle. I used to dislike Apple-Users (especially Mac users), but I have realised that in this case at least, I may have turned pretentious but shardit the phone actually works!)...Where was I? Ah yes, the Daily Telegraph.
It says today that about 615,000 students will be battling it out for approximately 415,000 University places next year. The Telegraph however, seems to think that this is a bad thing. I'm sorry...what!? No. No, it really isn't. If everyone gets into Uni to do some sharding Micky-Mouse degree (but it's /still/ a degree, mind you!) then what's the point of Uni in the first place? Surely only the most academic percentile ought to be able to go? Within ten years, the Government apparantly want 50% of people to go to University. In my opinion, this is 100% absurd.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all up for people having opportunities...but why not have less places for the same price? That way the 'poor' kids (I say this with irony, I'm up to my eyeballs in debt) will still have their shot, and only the best will actually get in. For the love of common sense, bring back apprentiships, make school more interesting...shake things up by all means, but don't dumb down the system. In the end we'll all suffer if that happens.
