Originally Posted by FiNbAr

You have to draw a line somewhere though mate surely?

Half the courses these days don't actually teach any practical life skills which allow the student to obtain a worthwhile, contributary job. They do though provide the student with 4 years of f@nnying around with his/her mates getting bladdered on half price lager.

I was lucky in that my IT degree got me a decent job with decent prospects, but i could never claim to have been interested in IT. It's dull as fvck. I did it because it was an education to get me a job. Half the students these days do poxy courses about 'film studies' or something because they quite like watching films, then they moan when theres no job at the end of it for them. All the while the working population of the country is supposed to subsidise them to the hilt while they sit around jerking off to black and white spanish movies about allegorical donkeys.

p.s. Left uni 8.5 years ago and i'm still paying back my student loans. No complaints though, I spent them on cars, beers and birds.

Originally Posted by matt85

I agree with a lot of this post but one aspect of it, regarding '4 figure sums they dont have to pay back' i am not aware of ?? What sort of people are eligible for this?? I only say this because if anybody is entitled to this its probably me (Single parent family, long commute.. etc etc), and I want everything thats coming to me

Incidentally, I am starting my second year in October and im already c.£5k in the hole with student loans. Cant say im particularly bothered but then its not nice looking at your bank balance and never seeing it move upwards.