Quote Originally Posted by Greenbeanz View Post
Miles you could teach at a UK university and make good money. Apparently you also already make a decent living teaching at a Uni in South Korea. And yet you want everyone else to be a plumber? I agree there should be more apprenticeships but going to university is hardly the one way ticket to misery you make it out to be.
No, I don't think it is a reasonable expectation that every graduate leave their country though. It is a big sacrifice and can be a burden. They should be able to stay with their family in a system that protects their interests and not feel forced out. The system isn't protecting them, it is instead assaulting them with predatory lending and abusive economics. If I was a teenager today I might well still go to university based on naivety, but the older me on a younger shoulders would say 'I need some practical skills. There are no jobs for history majors'. There weren't then, there are less now.

University is useful, but you need useful subjects. Nursing for instance should be invested in and is here, it is neglected in the UK. There are too many humanities subjects that are not very useful at providing jobs to pay the bills. Engineering, nursing, medicine, architecture. These are useful practical skills. Plumbing and electrical work is very useful. That's all I'm saying.