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Another Barmy Tory Idea.
David Willetts mp,has just qualified at the Tory Dream Factory, he wants to send anyone who is over sixty and unemployed to university,to make them more employable. I have a better idea, send all young unemployed yobs who hang around all day drinking council lager,to university to make them more employable???
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'What an ass' is a bit harsh I think, canary42. Getting a degree at age 60 is very unlikely to help your career prospects significantly but surely people can still enjoy learning and benefit in some way. Many of the 60 year olds are probably far brighter and more willing to learn than some of the students who go at age 18
>>>Another Barmy Tory Idea
Yes, almost as daft as Labour's idea of opening the doors to any and every immigrant that wants to come here (which they actually put in place).
We now have hundreds of thousands of people here who have no skills, cant speak English, and are happy to live on benefits or turn to crime.
We also have 2.5 million unemployed, so we hardly needed these people to fill jobs did we.
Well done Labour.
Yes, almost as daft as Labour's idea of opening the doors to any and every immigrant that wants to come here (which they actually put in place).
We now have hundreds of thousands of people here who have no skills, cant speak English, and are happy to live on benefits or turn to crime.
We also have 2.5 million unemployed, so we hardly needed these people to fill jobs did we.
Well done Labour.
Gosh! I could be on University Challenge: "Hello, I'm Fred Puli, drunken and Magdalen, reading pornography".
Or I could go back to college and discover what they were trying to teach me the first time. Can't see what possible benefit or advantage emerging at 69, in my case, or 63 in others, with a new degree would be in the workplace.
Or I could go back to college and discover what they were trying to teach me the first time. Can't see what possible benefit or advantage emerging at 69, in my case, or 63 in others, with a new degree would be in the workplace.
Only if you count nearly causing accidents by reckless cycling; the regular occupation of students here between being in the undergraduate bar and the odd lecture and tutorial; as being "off the streets", on a purely literal interpretation of "off", Baldric !
Must see what B & Q have. I'm sure I can forget where everything is, or forget what the question was, at work; I do it at home, unpaid, as it is.
Must see what B & Q have. I'm sure I can forget where everything is, or forget what the question was, at work; I do it at home, unpaid, as it is.
Okay, I've read the article. Encouraging more older people to go too university by raising the cap for funding from age 54 to 60+ then that is a good thing in itself as the present policy has been 'ageist'. Most older people would never have to repay their loans so it could be attractive to some. But I don't see it as much of a help in dealing with the issue of retirement ages being put back and I think the government should place less emphasis on this as it gives ammunition to critics who may imply there may be some compulsion (which i'm sure there won't).
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