15th December 2010, 01:07 PM
yes indeed - Socratic Education
yes - high student numbers impact on unemployment figures.
but the real con here is the governments slight of hand with the education budget figures.....
"It is an accounting fiddle, designed to lower the appearance but not the substance of government debt. A loan that is repaid over 30 years does nothing to plug the funding gap now. Whatever funding is needed still must be paid up-front.
What it does do is give the Treasury the chance to claim that it’s not really expenditure, but rather buying an asset (the debt) that will repay over time, and thus not count it towards government borrowing figures.
The increase in student fees does nothing to reduce the amount of money the Government has to pay now; it just makes the financial situation look better on paper."
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/let...58589.html
and still billions are earmarked for Trident, for aggressive foreign policies, the Olympics, and presumable a new riot detecting sat-nav for the royal family....
Even worse yet more billions is OWED by major high street chains, who have consistently managed to avoid paying UK taxes, in way that must be in some way sanctioned by the government...else they would surely go after it, no?
Will the popular movement against destruction of public services, welfare and education fizzle out or grow momentum? who knows.
This is time for fear and courage - not cynicism.
http://botherer.org/2010/12/14/the-bbc-and-the-police/
yes - high student numbers impact on unemployment figures.
but the real con here is the governments slight of hand with the education budget figures.....
"It is an accounting fiddle, designed to lower the appearance but not the substance of government debt. A loan that is repaid over 30 years does nothing to plug the funding gap now. Whatever funding is needed still must be paid up-front.
What it does do is give the Treasury the chance to claim that it’s not really expenditure, but rather buying an asset (the debt) that will repay over time, and thus not count it towards government borrowing figures.
The increase in student fees does nothing to reduce the amount of money the Government has to pay now; it just makes the financial situation look better on paper."
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/let...58589.html
and still billions are earmarked for Trident, for aggressive foreign policies, the Olympics, and presumable a new riot detecting sat-nav for the royal family....
Even worse yet more billions is OWED by major high street chains, who have consistently managed to avoid paying UK taxes, in way that must be in some way sanctioned by the government...else they would surely go after it, no?
Will the popular movement against destruction of public services, welfare and education fizzle out or grow momentum? who knows.
This is time for fear and courage - not cynicism.
http://botherer.org/2010/12/14/the-bbc-and-the-police/