14th December 2010, 12:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th December 2010, 01:14 PM by GnomeKing.)
well teh fall out continues - lots of footage of daft and pointless police horse action inflaming crowds, several confirmed reports of injudicious beatings with police batons, widespread complaints about the disorder generated by kettleing tactics, disabled man in wheelchair dragged by arms across the street.........everything one would exprxt from the boys and girls in bright-yellow.....
The right wing, crypto-fascists (and yes, i use the term correctly, as Gore Vidal intended), and not-so-crypto-fascists are all baying for blood (or least water cannons! huzar!). at least now we know what to expect from thugs on both sides.....(and please save the noble beast from this turmoil....whinny " (sings) oh.....you cant keep a horse in riot man, it isnt the place for old ned, a horse's place, is on dry land, he'll never be happy - panic he may well...oh, you cant keep.....this verse needs work- suggestions please?)
back on topic;
interest is an issue, as yet again, the rich (who can pay off early) pay much less in interest, and are therefore further pampered by a state which cares less and less about the rest of us.
It is not just about money shuffling - the whole basis and philosophy of eduction is f****ed!
the country needs to look beyond eduction as a job training or as a means of supplying grist to the industrial mill.
education is about creating better, happier, more fulfilled and more social Citizens - it is for the benefit of Society, not simply the economy (as we have discussed previously in this form in relation to archaeological degrees).
The education bill affects more than just fees - loss of EMA (costs 1billion - compare with 36billion "unaccounted" for in MOD - or bank bailouts - or collective bonuses across finance...)
Of most concern for archaeologists is surely the loss of Arts and Humanities funding (even if personally i consider myself a scientist...)
How do we see this panning out?
(just heard that the Crime Scene Forensic thingy is going to be closed - it is losing money, apparently crime doesn't pay after all....) - everywhere, specialist services are bieng threatened, often because they don't in themselves make much money and/or because they they are not visible 'frontline'.....this hole gets deeper every week, and its going to be herder and harder to get out!
The right wing, crypto-fascists (and yes, i use the term correctly, as Gore Vidal intended), and not-so-crypto-fascists are all baying for blood (or least water cannons! huzar!). at least now we know what to expect from thugs on both sides.....(and please save the noble beast from this turmoil....whinny " (sings) oh.....you cant keep a horse in riot man, it isnt the place for old ned, a horse's place, is on dry land, he'll never be happy - panic he may well...oh, you cant keep.....this verse needs work- suggestions please?)
back on topic;
interest is an issue, as yet again, the rich (who can pay off early) pay much less in interest, and are therefore further pampered by a state which cares less and less about the rest of us.
It is not just about money shuffling - the whole basis and philosophy of eduction is f****ed!
the country needs to look beyond eduction as a job training or as a means of supplying grist to the industrial mill.
education is about creating better, happier, more fulfilled and more social Citizens - it is for the benefit of Society, not simply the economy (as we have discussed previously in this form in relation to archaeological degrees).
The education bill affects more than just fees - loss of EMA (costs 1billion - compare with 36billion "unaccounted" for in MOD - or bank bailouts - or collective bonuses across finance...)
Of most concern for archaeologists is surely the loss of Arts and Humanities funding (even if personally i consider myself a scientist...)
How do we see this panning out?
(just heard that the Crime Scene Forensic thingy is going to be closed - it is losing money, apparently crime doesn't pay after all....) - everywhere, specialist services are bieng threatened, often because they don't in themselves make much money and/or because they they are not visible 'frontline'.....this hole gets deeper every week, and its going to be herder and harder to get out!