Education in Britain is fast becoming unaffordable

I have already mentioned that the plans to scrap the EMA (Education maintenance Allowance) is only going to ensure that we have more unqualified, less educated young people looking for work and more likely to be claiming benefits.

This when coupled with the current governments tripling of University fees is nothing more than an educational disaster. The oddest thing is that the Government is now criticising Universities for charging the maximum that they we told they were allowed to charge!

However nothing I can ever say will be more damming than what students themselves are saying and this 15 year old lad, Joe Cotton, is particularly damming;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13187600

Joe Cotton's EMA speech at NUT

Hear, Hear!