Why? We've got an elected government, and a head of that government. Why bring in another level of political nonsense? Thankfully the people here aren't quire ******ed enough for us to end up with a President.
Go for it. My best mate moved to rural Charente about 20yrs ago. Loves it, threw himself into local activities (starting by offering to mark out the local footy team's pitches) is now a French citizen and deputy mayor. Broadband is crap though.
I've always loved the South of France, though FLT mentioned Italy, and in recent years, the Italian genes have started to pull me, so I can't entirely rule out the old country either. That's where my Dad's family comes from, and I'm much more like my Father [minus his temper] than my Mum, so it draws me. I love the emotion and passion of Italy too. Thing is, the Mediterranean is where it's at. Spoiled for bleedin' choice.
Well, that's a weird thing to say. It's only the richest students who currently pay off their fees, so he should be welcoming an increase in fees as it'll hit high earners only. Vin
Does anyone else sometimes see a huge empty space between DTLW's post and the end of his post or is it just my laptop? I quite often see this on his posts but no one else's. Unfortunately University education has become the norm whereas in my day (I'm so old) people only went to get qualifications to become doctors, teacher etc. People who wanted to be professionals (not Bodie and Doyle - age again). Now it seems everyone goes and studies any old rubbish with no view to a career path. It's has become unsustainable and therefore fees (introduced by Labour) need to be paid. If the level of fees makes people think twice and decide to go for an apprenticeship I don't think that is a bad thing.
Yep. I was offered a Personal Trainer course at uni. It would have been a 3yr course and would have cost me £9k. The length if the course was the biggest thing that out me off, so I decided to look elsewhere. I ended up getting a course which was through a gym. It lasted 6 months and cost me £1500. It trained me up to just one level below the 3 yr uni one.
Downing Street has agreed to sign up to a cross-party move to exclude the NHS from the terms of a controversial EU-US trade deal. The move is aimed at heading off a possible Commons defeat for David Cameron over TTIP. Tory rebels were threatening to join forces with Labour and the SNP to force through an amendment to the Queen's Speech to safeguard the health service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36332415 Hate TTIP but at least the NHS seems safe now.
Yeah, quite agree. One of the issues appears to be that all courses (even if they are pretty random and lead to a pretty "nothing" degree in terms of career) must be 3 years long, so you get the situation where Bernard (or Bernardette of course) gets to go to 4 lectures a week on social engineering in Ancient Greece, leaving a load of time to go out and spend all that lovely loan money ............. In my day (yes I'm old) I was at uni first thing (9 am! ) Monday morning and only had Wednesday afternoon off, when we played rugby (I went to Cardiff) ...... Of course, that WAS a Maths degree (and I only stuck it for a year), but I know so many students now who only have between 5 and 10 lectures a week. Couldn't they then condense the course into 2 years max? I applaud Beefy for going the quicker route - my son went to Plymouth to do IT, dropped out after a year and got a job with a company who let him do a year's evening course on various techy stuff (at his expense). He qualified and now earns 3 times what my daughter gets - and she has a Masters degree! Tech Colleges should have remained the same - giving apprenticeships and technical skills and these "dumb" degrees should be outlawed. If the thought of coming out saddled with debt puts someone off doing a degree in Baking Technology Management (and, yes, there IS a degree of that name) then good, say I! OR ........... and this would be really radical, students could actually get paid work whilst at Uni (in between lectures) - a friend of mine's niece left Edinburgh Uni with no debt at all, because she took various jobs in her free time and earned enough so she could pay off her debt at the end. Radical, eh?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...ees-you-never-knew-existed.html?frame=2659058 I want to do a combination of Viking Studies, Brewing and Distilling and Viticulture and Oenology ............ Reckon I'd be perfectly suited - especially to the last 2 (might be a tad old to do the raping and pillaging module of the first ....... )
My brother did an apprenticeship. He was employed by a company who paid for him to take day release and study to become a computer engineer. That would not happen now he would have to go to university. He got the same qualification but was working too. Surely that way is better for everyone.
Truly the actions of a government that wants to privatise the NHS. The NHS was never at risk. Not if it's after a few lectures on the distilling course.
