lets be fair, Students spend most of the week laid in bed because there are only a few lectures they have to attend each week. the rest is alleged homes study. If they did more lectures during the week you could cut down the time in university, reduce the costs and allow them to get a job quicker rather than bumming it around, protesting at every opportunity they get for what ever pathetic reason they deem necessary.
I can say this as have been studying FULL time every day and have completed my BEng (Hons) in electrical engineering in 2 years. Granted this was sponsored and I've been on full wages for the entire duration, so its easier in that respect, I've sat in lectures watching the idle sh!ts hung over, with a thumb up their a$$ not paying attention at all.
Speaking to most of them, when you ask why their at university the reply is its for the 'student experience'. Obviously they are not all like that, but there are that many bogus degrees available, i think its a waste of their time and life unless they get something worthwhile. Its widely known that a fairly large percentage (cant remember the figures) of students dont even get a job which utilizes their degree.
....Let's be even fairer and point out that whether they only have to attend a few hours of lectures each week or not, there is a lot of hard work which they have to do if they want to succeed, and that just like at the demos, they're not ALL like some folks suggest.
Alot of hard work to do if they do a proper degree and not something pointless.
The only thing that made me want to go to uni was the lifestyle, other than that it didnt interest me.
In the end when I had to make the choice at 16 I decided I just wanted to get decent money as quickly as possible and here I am as a gas engineer.My older sis went the uni route, did a law degree, then did some more law based studying only to now decide she wouldnt enjoy the lawyer lifestyle of being tied to a desk for 14 hours a day to become a partner. She now works for a investment firm in London, makes alright money, but is saddled with debt and still doesnt make as much money as her lowly gas engineer brother.
I dont feel that in her case she has wasted her time or money, but the people who go to uni to study photography, art, lady gaga? What the point? What are they going to use their degree for, and are they going to be making any half decent money afterwards?
If your gonna go to uni, study a proper degree, that will get you a proper job, and a proper wage.
Know so many people who have done degrees in something, to only do a job thats completely unrelated, and work alongside people with no degree.