Re: State pension scandal …
Originally Posted by
Dextrous63
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It's an interesting point you make OGF.
Leaving aside the idea that graduates tend to end up getting higher paid jobs which more than pay (in taxes) for the cost of their education, and indeed the student repayment scheme also offsets any debt....
Your argument also seems to suggest that maybe the school leaving age and/or curriculum needs to be reviewed to enable youngsters seek employment with less generic knowledge at a far more tender age.
This may have legs, on the assumption that there are sufficient jobs available to keep them off the street.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not (entirely) knocking it and have felt for some time that schools and 6th form colleges ought to have courses with specific career skillsets in mind for those who have an idea of what field they hope to end up in.
I don't know what the situation is in the area where you live Dex, but I'm aware of many young people (Twenties and thirties) where
not a single one of them (my daughter, two granddaughters and friends included) ended up doing the job that they were trained and qualified to do at University. My best friends son who gained qualifications in physics at Oxford, is now a professional poker player, and actually runs a successful tutoring website. It would be interesting to see any statistics on just how many students that graduated from university are actually following their chosen course of training.