Some thoughts

I've written previously on higher education , glad to see more youngers are realizing the poor value of a degree:  The decline of traditional university study is no bad thing

Truth of the day:  The Student Loan system is a racket which needs reform before it is expanded . Excerpt: It is not commonly appreciated the extent to which the Student Loan system is based on lies. The first deception is that the system is progressive. This is untrue. Wealthier students either opt out of it, with the help of “bank of Mum and Dad”, or repay early, with help of large City salaries. Below them is a cohort of people who earn enough to be constantly required to repay while in employment, but never enough to repay the liability. This particularly effects women, who take career breaks for childcare, or those in caring professions like nursing or medicine. As The Great University Con spells out this is very true, we are saddling a generation with unrepayable debt for a lot of useless degrees. I agree with that book's author that we need to get rid of the idea that you need a degree to be a nurse, police officer, etc, and scrap the 50% of students going to uni goal. If w...

I finished the first draft of my essay yesterday afternoon. I just need to edit it down to below the word limit, sort my references/bibliography, and tidy up. I also had a job interview on Tuesday moring, and had an email this afternoon inviting me for a follow up interview next week.  I have also been catching up on background reading for my course (which I probably should have done earlier_, getting through 2 of the 4 books recommended.  Having reached the midpoint of the first proper term of my course, I thought I'd share a few thoughts on it so far.  First off, while online learning has some advantages (lack of travel cost/time, readings being all posted online rather than having to did out a paper yourself), I do find the virtual lecturers less engaging than being there in person and it is harder to discuss as a group. One og my reasons for doing this course was the social aspect, which is sorely lacking in online learning. My biggest other issue is how woke everythi...