Maastricht Degrees.

Yeseee! You can now do a degree at Masstricht Universuty for £1,500 a year fees, a discount of 83% on UK FE. That’s £4,500 instead of £27,000 or a new Jaguar for the price of a second hand Citroen Picasso. Or putting it another way why pay the government’s youth extortion system the price of a new Jaguar for a second hand Citroen? Hopefully this is the tip of the iceberg and our youth will soon be travelling all over the world for their degrees thus depriving our government’s capacity to loan them enough money to sustain our economy. Empty halls of residence will make perfect homes for the hapless homeless, bankrupt landlords will release numerous houses to first time buyers and the middle class experts in their field will find that what they’ve been teaching for the past twenty years is grossly out of date. I dipped into the Edexcel website yesterday to find the criteria for the GCSE Maths and English syllabuses. They both contain literally hundreds of criteria items that a teacher must mark and keep track of to arrive at a student’s grade. A maths GCSE course requires, for a class of 30, nearly 8,000 marks to be taken down and manipulated. The bureaucracy is so appalling it must take at least a day a week to account for what you did in the other four. Its focus on minutia is like my friend giving me directions to Leicester: it took him 20 minutes of talking to get to the end of the street by which time I’d decided just drive around looking for road signs would be quicker. It’s QC gone mad, it’s crazy. Just do stuff and you’ll learn stuff, it’s not rocket science.