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  Sorry guys - I hijacked a different thread with this so have moved it to a new topic. I feel strongly about this!!!!
  
  
  
  Going off on a bit of a tangent: one hidden agenda that makes me angry is the use of education as a political tool. It is absolutely true that people with less or less formal education are at a disadvantage in the wider world, especially when competing for funding/business/services. The right words matter, and the ability to read a situation and interpret information matters.
  
  I feel passionately that education should be free and is a right for everyone regardless of social factors. This doesn't mean I think we should all walk around with degrees and PHds: qualifications are a different and seperate matter. But education to any level is a human right and the open door to freedom and liberty. To have a government deliberately dismantling any bridge towards that aim is abhorrent and I have lost any respect and support I may have had for our government as the result of their meddling and fiddling with our education system. It had already taken a battering from the previous inept crowd which appalled me even more because of their allegedly socialist (and by implication therefore more liberal regarding education) and needed a real overhaul to make it more effective. But to so clearly hug the power that education bestows to the bosom of those who can afford it, to so blatantly deter many who would need encouragement to consider further education, to so self-righteously use the excuse of the recession to lever in measures that will in effect limit the real education to those who already have a measure of power is beyond the pale and wholly unforgivable.

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