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  This country lost the plot with tertiary education some 30 years ago, when what we needed was to strengthen the polytechnic system into the sort of technical school system Germany was famous for (though even their education system is in the crapper due to financial constraints) so we could churn out the scientists, engineers and technicians we desperately needed/need. Instead successive governments decided to create new universities and allow polytechnics to convert to universities, effectively damning science and manufacturing to a paucity and lack of talent ever since. It is frankly ludicrous as a nation to have an aspiration that 50% of all A level students should attend university, as all this will do is saddle them with debt and the trauma of an over supplied labour market for years after their graduation.

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