How to cut tuition fees - Charlie Brooker

We should teach only the useful stuff: scavenging, strangling and how to operate a water cannon.

You can't put a price on a good education. Except, actually, you can – and it turns out that price is just over £9,000 a year.

Unsurprisingly many students are furious at the hike in tuition fees; but apart from shouting about it or trying to smash the Treasury to bits with sticks, what practical steps can we take to make education more affordable?

Nine thousand pounds a year sounds like a lot – but actually, it's shitloads. Yet it turns out that if you divide shitloads by 52, it comes out at around £173 a week, which sounds more achievable. Especially if your course only lasts seven days. So let's only provide week-long courses.

Obviously, to compress a three-year course into one week, the field of study will have to be streamlined a bit. Whittled down. Reduced to a series of bullet points. But in many cases, that's an advantage.

Take history. There's already far too much of it. In fact, mankind is generating a "past mountain", which grows 24 hours in size every single day. No one can be expected to keep all of that in...

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Lib Dem transport minister may quit over tuition fees

Liberal Democrat transport minister Norman Baker has hinted he could resign from the government in order to vote against plans for tuition fee rises.

The party's MPs signed a pre-election pledge to oppose any increase, but policy has changed since the formation of a coalition with the Conservatives.

Mr Baker told the BBC it was the "most difficult issue" he had faced.

He added that quitting his post to vote against the rises was one "option", but said he had not yet made up his mind.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and his colleagues have faced criticism for backing coalition plans to raise university tuition fees to as much as £9,000 a year, despite pledging to fight any increase before the election.

According to the agreement with the Conservatives, Lib Dem MPs are expected to back the change in...

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How you need some help with your Law Essays?

With my Law Degree I have found many free resource sites which are great at directing me with structuring my law essays.

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Hope you find their resources as useful as I have.

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Max

Beswick Contract Law Essay

Whilst researching for my essay on the Beswick v Beswick contract law case which Peter Beswick sold his business to his nephew John Beswick in return for a promise to pay £6 a week to Peter Beswick for the rest of his life and thereafter £5 a week to Peter Beswick's widow for the rest of her life. Upon Peter's death John stopped making the payments to Peter's widow which resulted in her taking action against him this was thrown out as the contract was only between Peter & John she wasn't a party in the contract.

This information was found on Law Essays UK and you can read the essay here.

University graduates taking jobs in call centres

Almost a third of call centre workers have university degrees, as students struggle to find decent jobs during the credit crunch.

Call centre bosses reported an increase in the number of applications from former students amid a drop in the number of well-paid graduate positions.

The news follows the publication of figures showing that thousands of students are finding work in bars, supermarkets and building sites after failing to secure posts in graduate professions.

According to a latest study, one-in-three call centre staff now has a university degree compared with 25 per cent in 2009.

Almost half of call centre bosses said they had seen a increase in graduate applications.

The findings – in a study by Hays Contact Centres – follows a drop in the number of skilled staff taken on by leading firms in recent years.

Geoff Sims, managing director of Hays Contact Centres, said: “Call centres are becoming more demanding of their staff so it isn't surprising that the profession is attracting more people with degrees, particularly when we are still faced with a challenging economy and high unemployment levels.”

The study – based on a survey of almost 300 call centre staff – also found that university graduates increasingly saw call centre work as a career.

What is your opinion? Are call centres a good career?

School truancy rises again

Just found an intresting article on the Help The Law Student’s typepad blog which discusses the truancy in schools rising again.

Personally I think it boils down to the parents and the discipline they have in place. Although saying that my parents had very good discipline with me and my brother and that didn't stop him skipping school a few times throughout the years.

Take a look and comment on the article at the link below:-

http://helpthelawstudent.typepad.com/blog/2010/08/school-truancy-rises-again-as-total-absences-decline.html

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Max :)

Free Law Essays

I have just stumbled upon a good collection of free law essays that law students can use as a study aid for their law course.

The collection can be found on one of my favourite law essay resources websites Law Essays UK. Please follow the link below:-

Free Law Essays

Evidence Law - Law of Evidence

Whilst I was browsing www.law-essays-uk.com as mentioned in my previous post I found a useful section for Evidence Law. You can find it at the following link:-

Evidence Law

Some more good help resources for law students can be found at the following URL:

http://www.law-essays-uk.com/revision-area

Ciao

Max

Law Essay Writing

Whilst scouring the tinterweb for resources to help me with my law essays I stumbled across this Law Essay Writing website - www.law-essays-uk.com.

Some great study help resources for law students can be found at the following URL:

www.law-essays-uk.com/sample-essays

I found it very useful resource.

Ciao

Max