More student protests

[SWP's back]

Yes the taxpayer funded their education, their rich parents allowed them the money to go out on the piss all the time.

You have to pay for your second degree. I don't see the problem with them staying at university.

Good for you.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I love how everyone likes to generalise and group people into one very easy stereotype.

Liam, you claim to hate students but how many do you know?

I've known students who work full time to pay their way, I've known students who strip for the money, sell drugs for the money, I've known students who are beautiful poets and one's who are utter arseholes.

As for 'tax dodging', the loans are taxed and we pay VAT on everything just like the rest of the country.

A lot of my mates who work for themselves fiddle their taxes yet you rarely hear the working man labelled as a 'tax dodger'.

I also assume these people would not purchase cheap drink or cigs from abroad, tax dodging that lads.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Just got back, was amusing to see police congratulating everyone on keeping calm and then storming into us all (all sat down) five minutes later, hitting anyone within reach with a baton. Tossers then cried when they got it back, too funny.

 

[Skashion]

I like that I've seen the issue of how much it actually costs for a degree raised in this thread. That, to me, is very interesting as I have never seen any figures. At the moment the assumption seems to be that because a deficit exists between tuition fees and funding, degrees are being subsidised. However, a fair proportion of the time of the lecturers and resources are devoted towards research to the point where it's uncommon, in my experience anyway, that they think of themselves as lecturers first. There was one department in particular that was absolutely unequivocal about its cynicism in providing popular courses which cost virtually nothing to run in order to get funding for research. They were completely up-front about it.

 

[SWP's back]

Just got back, was amusing to see police congratulating everyone on keeping calm and then storming into us all (all sat down) five minutes later, hitting anyone within reach with a baton. Tossers then cried when they got it back, too funny.

I am sure they cried. And the great unwashed won.

 

[bluemoonmcfc]

Been a student at a top University and thought it was full of wankers. Also met some sound people too.

The girls are the worst. Conversing about where they are going to travel to next, for free, to go to some party, for free, in their designer catwalk clothes that they got, for free. Without any real grasp of what it's like to live in the real world.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Just got back, was amusing to see police congratulating everyone on keeping calm and then storming into us all (all sat down) five minutes later, hitting anyone within reach with a baton. Tossers then cried when they got it back, too funny.

I am sure they cried. And the great unwashed won.

One who got the firework in the face certainly did.

 

[MCFC BOB]

I love how everyone likes to generalise and group people into one very easy stereotype.

Liam, you claim to hate students but how many do you know?

I've known students who work full time to pay their way, I've known students who strip for the money, sell drugs for the money, I've known students who are beautiful poets and one's who are utter arseholes.

As for 'tax dodging', the loans are taxed and we pay VAT on everything just like the rest of the country.

A lot of my mates who work for themselves fiddle their taxes yet you rarely hear the working man labelled as a 'tax dodger'.

I also assume these people would not purchase cheap drink or cigs from abroad, tax dodging that lads.

<3.

 

[SWP's back]

I am sure they cried. And the great unwashed won.

One who got the firework in the face certainly did.

Well you have certainly won the argument now. Well done.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

I love how everyone likes to generalise and group people into one very easy stereotype.

Liam, you claim to hate students but how many do you know?

I've known students who work full time to pay their way, I've known students who strip for the money, sell drugs for the money, I've known students who are beautiful poets and one's who are utter arseholes.

As for 'tax dodging', the loans are taxed and we pay VAT on everything just like the rest of the country.

A lot of my mates who work for themselves fiddle their taxes yet you rarely hear the working man labelled as a 'tax dodger'.

I also assume these people would not purchase cheap drink or cigs from abroad, tax dodging that lads.

<3.

It sounds like bitterness to me from those who don't like students.

It's quite lame, it's like me going 'Oh, I don't like joiners', it's mental.

I'm certainly glad I got my degree and I'm happy for you younger lot to be out there having fun and getting an education.