school leaving age risen. good or bad?

[steve56]

I was in a cafe last week at Westcliff and there was a lot of students there they must have been in their early 20s but they were acting much younger and talking loud etc

[wayne]

Well considering the "superior" level of intelligence this generation have as demonstrated by the exam they recieve, given the extra year they would be able to discover the cure for cancer and end world hunger. Needless to say how could i not think this is a good idea.

[Lucifer Sam]

send the lazy gobby twats to work at 15! Never did me any harm!

Fuck me, i'm not surprised they don't grow up properly til they're around 25 these days. 18? Whats the sodding point in that? Get a bloody job!

[The Last Word]

swampthing wrote:

> 4 - at 16+ you are an adult. will you be arrested for refusing to go to school if you are 17 or 18?

Quite. I understand raising the school leaving age was partly to do with stemming the number of 16yr olds leaving school with little worthwhile education and drifting into crime.

So they now have another two years to play truant and drift into crime.

Back to the drawing board, methinks.

[planeterotica]

The goverment know that unemployment is going to rise so keeping them on at school for another couple of years will make the figures look better !sad!

[JonnyHungwell]

Seems a pointless move to me in a country that is so un-academic. Just like all the second rate new universities they created - the ones that used to be polytechnics. Statistics show that most students who attend these jumped up polytechnics end up with jobs paying no more than those who went straight into the job market - the only difference is the fool with the fake degree has a huge bill to pay for the privilege. If you're going to go to university, go to a real one or don't bother.

[Jonone]

Hungwell, some of the former Polytechnics outperform the 'traditional' universities. Look in publications like The Times' Good University Guide and others. It's wrong to generalise on the basis of institutions alone; it's much more useful to look at subjects and compare universities on this basis. It's in this respect you'll find that many former polytechnics compare very favourably.

You seem to have an axe to grind ... why ?

[MegaTon]

Good as it gets the hoodie scum off the streets lol

[JonnyHungwell]

I know some of the new universities are ok - but many more aren't. They should have made the decent ones into universities and left the rest where they were, because the good ones are swamped in a quagmire of mediocrity.

I don't really have an axe to grind, apart from with the government who changed the status of these institutions to make more money out of students (local and foreign). I have a degree from a traditional university in the days when you paid nothing, so the changes don't affect me at all.