No I don't think they should work for nothing. Of course they should be paid the going rate for the work they do. The point is that they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Who would kill the golden goose ? My point fits in with my belief that the state is bloated and the first priority of any organisation is to safeguard its own interests.
How could it possibly be simple? You need skilled migrants, for example surgeons, where the best person should be hired regardless of nationality. We have a moral duty to take in our share of people for whom war has displaced them (even if just temporarily) and we should encourage as many students as possible to study here as at adds value and credence to qualifications gained here. We need people who contribute to our society, or whom we have a duty to protect. We don't want those who arrive for an easy ride or handouts. It's simply not, and cannot be a simple problem - to assume it is, or even can be is to simply not understand the problem.
I don't disagree with what you say Phil, although I might pick up on foreign students departing and leaving debts, all I was doing was asking a question.
The foreign student thing is interesting. Universities like to have them as they pay their way and the govt underfunds universities. It's pretty much all economic. If you see The UK as a big company competing with other countries for markets, jobs, wealth etc you might think it unwise to enable your future competitors to benefit from what is perhaps the world's greatest education system. It's a transfer if technology for a bowl of potage. I wonder how many beardy terrorists have bomb making chemical degrees from British universities... It's all quite noble educating the world - until they go back to Bangladesh with their business degree and open an exploitative factory. It's quite possible that I am thinking too much here in Daily Mail terms but the increasing obsession with educating the world seems a little odd to me.
It's quite possible that I am thinking too much here in Daily Mail terms but the increasing obsession with educating the world seems a little odd to me.[/QUOTE] Just because the Daily Mail is an odious, vindictive, hypocritical , vicious rag does not mean that everything they say is wrong. They will occasionally get something right. Possibly by mistake , who knows ....
