Students

[Provost Harrison]

Okay you didn't post the article right away. You did not make it clear what you were talking about.

Secondly, oh forgive me because I didn't right away assume college because here in a normal country called the land of the free and the home of the brave, we don't have free college educations. That's for the socialist backwaters to have

You come from Philadelphia...trust me, you have no room to consider where I come from a "backwater" from the ****hole you reside in!

[Dauphin]

You only pay the tuition fees as a "tax" on income above a certain amount, until such time as you pay off your debt. If you don't benefit from your degree (i.e. get a well paid job in the end), you won't actually pay for any of the tuition. "Saddled with debt" is entirely misleading.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I can't see many people benefitting from some of the craptacular universities and courses that are in existence. Too many people with degrees in advanced tapdancing from Barnsley University (formerly polytechnic formally college formally disco) that they can't find a job. My main problem is that education has overexpanded and the only real purpose of these degrees is to keep these people off the dole and off the unemployment records for a few years. I don't think we should pay for this crap in any shape or form, where there is value to be had in proper education...

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

And considering we have posters in here like Heraclitus saying people should be discouraged from going to college and who knows what the hell the Genius Clique thinks of public education and how it fits into the GRAND UTILITY CALCULATOR!!!!!! who knows what you would think, Dauphin.

Not that I expect it anytime soon, but if any of the great public works programs like nuclear power plants and the like ever get off the ground, we have a decided shortage of skilled craft in the US. College edumaction isn't an end all be all.

[Krill]

In todays economy it is very hard for most students to get a job.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Free guns for everyone!

Only after the requisite free training courses.

[Elok]

To be fair, if I were British I'd want to assault Charles and Camilla whether I got education or not. Just look at them and tell me you don't agree.

[Provost Harrison]

You can't assaunt Camilla...she is a horse, and cruelty to animals is illegal.

[C0ckney]

The thing is though, at this point, I am failing to see what the LibDems are getting out of this. They are going to be seen as hypocrites but they are not getting full PR...sounds like they are getting screwed to me...

to be seen as a serious party of government and actually be in government for the first time in over 80 years maybe...

[Boris Godunov]

Albie still thinks the UK is like something out of a Charles Dickens novel.

"Who the **** is Charles Dickens???" --Al

[Kuciwalker]

You only pay the tuition fees as a "tax" on income above a certain amount, until such time as you pay off your debt. If you don't benefit from your degree (i.e. get a well paid job in the end), you won't actually pay for any of the tuition. "Saddled with debt" is entirely misleading.

That's a pretty ass-backwards way of doing it..

[Egbert]

"Who the **** is Charles Dickens???" --Al

A man who wrote novels during the 19th century. He is British. He is one of the most famous fiction writers in the English speaking world.

(I have no idea if he is at all popular in the USA though)

[Kuciwalker]

Wait, are you actually this stupid?

[Al B. Sure!]

Of course I know who Charles Dickens is. I am familiar with 'great works of literature'. Just like, Boris, how I was somewhat familiar with opera (I mean relative to anyone on the street)...

Led Zeppelin compares to neither, however.

[Boris Godunov]

Just like, Boris, how I was somewhat familiar with opera (I mean relative to anyone on the street)...

Phantom of the Opera != opera.