Millbank student demo just got real

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Of course, this isn't just about fees. Many people have a problem with the idea of higher education is being marketised to the point that institutions are going to have to compete with one another even more to recruit students as funding is transferred to the individual 'consumer'. Institutions (or courses for that matter) which fail to attract capital will of course go under unless some dashing entrepreneur in shining armour decides to save it. Beyond the obvious fact that the positives of education cannot simply be measured in pound coins, this spells the end of independent research and opens the door to vested interests. I don't want some Marlboro sponsored research team telling me why smoking is actually good for me!

this kind of stuff has already been happening, at staffs uni their pottery course is all but dead. now anyone who knows even a little about pottery knows that stoke-on-trent is like the centre of the world for pottery and now the uni no longer runs the course AFAIK, it got absorbed into other crafts.

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I would find that funny if only it weren't so infuriatingly ignorant.

I won't berate you more as you obviously haven't given it much thought; why should you pause to think about adult literacy and numeracy programmes, courses to teach English for Speakers of Other Languages, and provision for adults with profound and multiple disabilities. But I'm sure it's only Mickey Mouse courses that will die. Alright Jack?

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I would find that funny if only it weren't so infuriatingly ignorant.

I won't berate you more as you obviously haven't given it much thought; why should you pause to think about adult literacy and numeracy programmes, courses to teach English for Speakers of Other Languages, and provision for adults with profound and multiple disabilities. But I'm sure it's only Mickey Mouse courses that will die. Alright Jack?

ooo hang on there, was that post directed at me?

[noam]

yeh i know i swear you were backing him?! lol

maybe he just wants to out protest you?!

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lol sorry I thought you were taking the piss - I'm in a combative mood...

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lol sorry I thought you were taking the piss - I'm in a combative mood...

not at all, the example i posted happened bout 3years ago so even before they could blame cuts. i don't think pottery is a mickey mouse course at all, some fairly complicated chemistry concepts to work out if you really want to get into cool effects with glazes.

everyone keeps going on about you need to take courses make sure you get your job and all that but i went to uni so i could study sociology which seems to put me at the bottom rung of usefulness in the eyes of employers even though what i learnt through the course can be applied to so much. still i went so i could study it without caring all that much about the knock-on effect it would have on my employability.

so in short , fuck the cuts.

[noam]

i did philosophy cos it was interesting.

[slothrop]

i did philosophy cos it was interesting.

But it has no direct benefit to international capitalism! How could you do such a thing?

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o and add to that i went to uni so i could escape the prison that was parents house and take mad drugs. imagine my amazement when summer came round and there were woods parties 10mins from my halls

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Shock horror:

A Daily Mail article in support of the protesters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... t-pub.html

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And a brilliant quote from long dead (but not forgotten) Suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst:

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics. There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy."

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quality quote.