Uni-reasonable

I worked for a long time on that little play on words in the title. I still dont think it is (a) very clear or (b) any good. "Uni-reasonable"... it's supposed to be a play on univeristy and unreasonable... it's the best I could come up with, it's better than "Extort-iversity" anyway...

It's quite a scary thought knowing that in less than two months, I'll be completely finished with university and education, and will have to go out into the harsh wilderness to find employment. I wont have a degree until official graduation so I'll have a few months where I will have no choice but to find a job where pretty much the only criteria is : they will give me a job.


Quite worryingly, though, I am faced with the fact that once I have a degree, probably an upper second class honours in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Wolverhampton, I will still be forced to find employment with exactly the same criteria. Having a degree is all well and good, and I'm sure it will open doors to me, simply making me elligable for some jobs/oppurtunities/or just making me look a bit better. It has come at the bitter cost of 20ish grand of debt.

However, as the talk of government recently has been to increased university fees, potentially to the disgretion of the specific university (which would be a terrible idea), it makes you wonder how far this might go.
Supposedly, in the near future, all UK universities will be given the right to charge whatever they feel is right per year to study at their institution (currently its around 3,100 a year [my apologies to the lack of a pound symbol, university computers are void of them for some reason]). Now, I think it's pretty clear what will happen if uni's can charge whatever they want: the prestige institutions like Oxford, and Cambridge, and Wolverhampton (...*whistles*...) will begin charging upwards of 20 maybe 30 grand a year, just because the rich can afford to pay it. That will just lead to the kind of system where less privaliged but just as bright kids will have to go to other uni's, or avoid further education simply because they cant afford it. And that just isn't right.

Now obviously, this kind of thing wouldnt bear too much of a problem on me. If next year the fees were all to rise dramatically we would certainly see a huge reduction in the number of students attending university, and consequently, getting degrees. That would see people like me, degree holders, open to more high paid job oppurtunties, as suddenly there would be much fewer graduates entering the marketplace. And indeed, in some ways I would sort of like to see only the people who actually care about getting educated going to university.
From my experience you tend to find that a lot of people these days go to university to get a qualification, rather than an education. It's what leads to people cheering when a lecturer says they'll be finishing an hour early, rather than bemoaning the fact that we pay over 3grand a year for them to teach us.

Nevertheless, being somewhat of a liberal, I tend to find that my heart's inclination says that if a qualification is open for rich people, ...call me crazy... it should be there for the less well off too.