Boo hoo!

‘Hundreds of tertiary students facing serious hardship’   NZ Herald
Good. Fund the serious stuff and to hell with the rest. NZ desperately needs engineers, doctors, industrial chemists and so forth. It doesn’t need any of the bullshit sociology and wimmins studies crap.

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22 Responses to Boo hoo!

  1. octagongrappler says:

    We Need more Sociologists :gunner

  2. WAKE UP says:

    I wonder if the plumbing and carpentry apprentices are “facing hardship:. Oh, wait a minute…we don’t have any. :o

    • octagongrappler says:

      Oh thats easy :mrgreen: Its because they are low status occupations, and our left wing liberal elite only exhault careers and qualifications that are respected and require academic rigour and critical thinking :gunner

      PS More braindead morons that they can control :rant

  3. Findalis says:

    We need to inform these idiots that getting your degree in Peruvian Sexual Rituals will NOT get you a good paying job. Majoring in Engineering, Science or Computers WILL get you a good paying job. Minoring in Peruvian Sexual Rituals will make you popular around the water cooler though.

  4. Cadwallader says:

    The best way to get a tertiary qualification, is to work until (say) 24 then go to university and pay for your own education with your savings!
    The dividends are: 1 No student loan to repay; 2 A sense of achievement doubled.
    This method can be done and teaches the would-be student to be discerning when choosing a career related qualification. Students seem happy to pay for drinks at the pub, or to go to the movies, but not for their education. Weird priorities.

    • octagongrappler says:

      True Cad

      Its funny how students take trips to Bali and Phuket during there breaks but cant afford rent,food and tuition Fees.

      Prob is there are no market forces driving down the price of Education like there is cell phones and plasma TV’s

      Infact the Housing Market and Education use the same lending and inflation/fractional reserve ponzi system.

      • Darin says:

        I agree Cad,except any student who can do that doesn’t need a degree hanging on the wall to be a success,it is already in their genetic makeup.

    • Findalis says:

      Or join the military and a GI Bill is put in place (just like it was done in WW 2). You serve your nation, then get to go to college or trade school.

      Or have rich parents.

  5. mara says:

    :wtf Don’t students have families anymore? Oh sorry, used a non-approved word there. My kid is smart enough to bludge off the old folks till she’s through and earning; that and flipping burgers. In return, she’s promised to not put us in shitty old folks homes one day. Though one can never rest too easy on that score.

  6. mort says:

    I bought a couple of rental properties when my kids were born with the plan that the properties would meet their immediate outgoings, and by the time the nippers are University aged, the income would then be diverted to their fees account, with any remainder left over to supplement their living expenses (which they would work for on the holidays).
    So far the plan is coming together nicely with the tenants paying off the mortgage. When the nippers have finished Uni, i’ll still have a couple of assets generating inflation proof income

  7. “…as well as looming heating costs linked to the Dunedin winter.”

    Maybe then they won’t be so open to greenies at the uni pushing their lazy, global warming, humans are scum crap.

    As a side benefit, financial hardship will sober them into wondering, is this degree in whatever really worth it.

    • Cadwallader says:

      The Dunedin winter! FFS that time of the year is best spent in the boozer stowing vast quantities of Speights’ into one’s gut then with luck spending the early morning hours bonking to steam up the windows etc.. This is called a “rite of passage!”

  8. kowtow says:

    I live in Dunedin. Every weekend the young fellas have cartons of beer under the arm and the girls bottles of plonk. (nothing wrong with that)The NZ taxpayer is footing the bill though and there is something wrong with that.
    The place is full of litter in the student areas and in the morning there is a shimmering glint in the sun of the millions of pieces of broken bottles that are another feature of the city.
    I have no doubt that some students do find it hard to get by but the vast majority are having a rare old time on the piss,going to the footie,partying etc Shit loads get into all sorts of trouble with the law and the uni authorities,and no doubt that has always been the case, however the numbers do surprise me.
    They call the place “Funedin”,so when I hear this shit I know someone has their hand out and is reaching into my pocket again.

    I came across this appalling article in the Telegraph the other day. The best part of it is the” Best rated ” comment.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9215076/Leading-universities-criticise-misguided-admissions-targets.html

  9. mara says:

    Just let them get pissed, as ever. Nature determines who will survive.

  10. Flashman says:

    NZ students have no concept or experience of genuine poverty.

    And they always have money for booze. Funny that.

  11. Flashman says:

    Addendum:

    How valuable is a graduate who cannot balance a personal budget?

    • The Gantt Guy says:

      They make for mighty fine MPs from the Watermelon, Liarbore, National and Winston First parties,core a start. They make damn good sociologists, university lecturers and skool teachers, second. And very good public “servants” third, especially in place such as treasury!

  12. Mark says:

    Being a poor students is standard, otherwise I would of never completed my degree as I would of been drinking or the time.

    Being poor meant you wanted to complete your degree in 3 years and get a good job.

    Young people these days are still to releant on Mum and Dad and cant stand on thier own 2 feet. Retards.

  13. mara says:

    Good grief Mark. I hope your major wasn’t in English. :shock: