UNI Rant

[Niall]

As I've always said, I really have no problem with further education but why should we as tax payers be paying for people's education that they won't use? (btw I'm not saying that's the case for all uni goers because it isn't).

If you had two people both of 20 years of age, 1 has been in regular work since leaving school and 1 hasn't worked because he's been at uni, I personally think the regular worker will be a more rounded person because unis can NOT teach you the real world. I'm not saying that uni is not the real world but they can't teach you how to work. They can teach you the principals of it but as some find out, the world can be very different once they leave uni to what they thought it would be. And this is why I believe in apprentiships for some (only some as it just won't work in some roles) roles as they give you the learning you would get at uni, you get a feel for the real job and more to the original point of this debate, they are a lot cheaper for the government.