Student debt

Universities are increasingly coming more bureaucratic and business-like rather than places of learning. This article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7946912.stm suggests that many vice-chancellors believe we as students should pay more for our education. Seriously is this necessary? University is all ready going to leave me with appox.  £18,000 worth or debt. That is already excessive and take me years to pay back. Who knows what my job chances are when I leave with the current economic crisis as it is. University should not be an elitist institution where only the rich can afford to go. In the modern world education should be available to everyone no matter what your background or your economic situation is like.  When my mum went to uni in the 1980’s she didn’t have to pay a single penny in tuition fees. I would like to see a return to that, education is not about making money but helping people to achieve their full potential.

Every student who reads this, or anyone who believes in anything I have said should sign this petition. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NohigherFees/
Hopefully this will help prevent our tuition fees being raised.

Punk Rock.

Me and my friend Matt (Special K) do a radio show every Friday for our uni’s station Livewire. Its between 7.30-9.00 and if anyone is ever interested in listening check it out on www.livewire1350.com 

It’s like a general punk theme, Matt plays like 77 type stuff and I generally spin hardcore punk and its associated subgenres or whatever really. This week I played:

1. Polar Bear Club- Our Ballads.
2. Frank Turner- Reasons not to be an idiot.
3. The Gaslight Anthem- The Backseat.
4. Maths- And we have killed.
5. Sinaloa- Rows of Tops.
6. Funeral Diner- The Wicked.
7. Lifetime- All night long.
8. All or Nothing- Assume the position.
9. Agnostic Front- Gotta go.
10. The Nerve Agents- Level Four Outbreak.
11. Trash Talk- Dig.
12. Deal With It- War against the machines.
13. Comeback Kid- Wake the dead.
14. The Legacy- Exsomnis.
15. Envy- A cradle of arguments and anxiousness.