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BBC News - Graduate jobs: The hunters and the hunted What bank is going to hire someone who graduated in Psychology? She'd be lucky to even get a job as a cashier, let alone a respectable position within a bank. Why study a degree and come out "unsure of what career to pursue"? Why study the subject in the first place? "You've no idea where you went wrong"... I'll tell you where you went wrong, you thick bint, it was the moment you decided to study a mickey mouse degree without thinking about what you really wanted to do. Maybe she's not entirely to blame. She is after all a victim of Blair's stupid policy of putting everyone through university, regardless of whether the degree will help them, or whether there'd be any jobs available at the end of it.

From Ed Milliband's website The Graduate Tax – a fair alternative Posted on July 13th, 2010 I’ve been interested to see that the government is giving serious thought to introducing a Graduate Tax, rather than raising Tuition Fees. The issue is coming to a head as Lord Browne is due to report on University funding in the autumn — and it’s possible that he could recommend that fees rise to £7,000 or even £10,000. But the Graduate Tax is a fairer alternative, and one I’ve been arguing for for some time. This is an important matter of principle. The supremacy of the market has extended too far into areas that should not be defined by commodity and exchange. But it is also a practical question. As fees rise further, less well-off as well as part-time students will be even less likely to apply to more expensive universities and so damage their opportunities. That does not fit in with the values of this party or this country. Conversely, studies have shown that such a Graduate Tax, which would abolish fees but ask graduates to pay between 0.25% and 2% of their income over a 20-year period, could raise substantially more for Universities than the current system. It would prevent the burden being put unfairly on students and their families, and link to their ability to pay. Those who believe in the future of our economy and the future of our young people, as I do, have a responsibility to come together and press for a fair and sustainable future for our Universities. That is the sort of Labour Party I will lead, offering real alternatives, bringing together the forces of progressive politics and turning our guiding values into real action for people. Login More here Could students pay their way through university with a graduate tax? Author: Gary Gibbon|Posted: 6:56 pm on 12/07/10 Category: Gary Gibbon on Politics | Tags: graduate tax/ Lord Browne/ university tuition fees I hear that, behind the scenes, the Coalition is giving serious thought to going for a graduate tax rather than going ahead with raising tuition fees. Lord Browne reports on university funding this autumn and has been widely reported to be thinking of calling for the £3,225 per year tuition fees cap to be raised. Lib Dem leaders had enough trouble getting their party to swallow a postponement of the abolition of tuition fees in the manifesto (it ended up put off to what some thought was a fairly meaningless distant horizon). The last thing they want to do is find themselves defending a giant hike in tuition fees. The coalition agreement gave Lib Dem MPs an opt-out allowing them to abstain if they can’t accept the government response to Lord Browne. So in the interests of both coalition parties, but particularly the Lib Dems, the government is looking seriously at switching to a graduate tax. Four out of the five Labour leadership candidates are talking about a similar shift, so there would be political cover of some kind. Even the National Union of Students has been sniffing round its own preferred version of a graduate tax. This is an important matter of principle. The supremacy of the market has extended too far into areas that should not be defined by commodity and exchange. But it is also a practical question. As fees rise further, less well-off as well as part-time students will be even less likely to apply to more expensive universities and so damage their opportunities. That does not fit in with the values of this party or this country. Conversely, studies have shown that such a Graduate Tax, which would abolish fees but ask graduates to pay between 0.25% and 2% of their income over a 20-year period, could raise substantially more for Universities than the current system. It would prevent the burden being put unfairly on students and their families, and link to their ability to pay. Those who believe in the future of our economy and the future of our young people, as I do, have a responsibility to come together and press for a fair and sustainable future for our Universities. That is the sort of Labour Party I will lead, offering real alternatives, bringing together the forces of progressive politics and turning our guiding values into real action for people. Sounds like a better option than raising fees to 10k a year

I'm having one of those days today where you have absolutely no energy at all and you can't really pinpoint why. I did go to bed pretty late last night. I woke up at 7 cos the bin was due out and I'd forgotten last night, so I leaped out of bed and did that. Then I went back to bed and watched some seinfeld. Next thing I know I'm waking up at 10 and the electric meter is beeping, so I had to go to the shop to get more. So I did that and came back, felt fine, started dl'ing lost and went and lay down and started watching Seinfeld again. Next thing I know I'm waking up 10 minutes ago. And I'm fucking still tired! My arms and head are heavy and I reckon I'll be on my way back to bed soon. Unbelievable Jeff. Guess I'll go and make some of that leftover macaroni from yesterday and watch Lost to try and shake myself up.

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Problems hit student loans system I'm in the same boat, I've sent something off 3 times, once they said they recieved it, and the other times they haven't. I have no indication as to what I am recieving, and when I'm reciving it and when I am recieving my full entitlement.

Fuck me pink. Just had my yearly statement through, £880 interest they charged me this year, considering I've only just started paying it off £15 a month (minimum payment) because my wages are a disgrace, I'm gonna be paying this mother off forever. Interest seems a but naughty, by my admitedly none Carol Vorderman-esque maths standards, if I keep up this rate my loan will still be going up £700 a year!!! Any of you photoship wizards fancy grafting Tony Blair's head onto Jimmy Conway? Because it might sum up how I feel. cheers. "Wages shit? FUCK YOU, PAY ME!!!"