I think it's fair to say university education isn't for everyone, but for me it has taught me a lot about who I am. Many people go to university without a clear view of what they want to do afterwards, and in my experience it is them who drift and don't reap the benefits of higher education. You shouldn't brand all us students chain-smoking alcoholics though, the majority of us accept the work that goes with the social schedule.

Most students are lazy, I used to be one. Students at University are copping out of learning real professions such as Nursing, plumbing and car mechanics etc. They choose dossy subjects like Media Studies that are of no use to anyone.

Being a parent of a student that (despite repeated pushing and being made aware of the impending DOOM) gained 3 E passes at A' level (a waste of time, in my opinion), has been awarded a place at university! I am amassed that the required entry qualifications initially given by these establishments, are purely advisory and no real effort is needed to strive and achieve the required results. It appears that failure is no longer PC and students are in fact customers and such they are always right, her lies the problem. It this attitude that accounts for some of the students apathy and apparent laziness, as they know they simply can't fail. I am forced to concur that the A' level has indeed been quietly downgraded and improve the statistics. Importantly this keeps the young unemployed numbers masked. This has represented an opportunity for the universities (now a business) to boost their intake of customers. The scramble for places abates and the reduction of the entry criteria follows, to ensure their maximum funding. As any commercial company must do, chasing margin, however this should not apply to our education system. To add to the problem, employers see these degrees and these students as commercially useless. This is not fair on that minority of students that are working hard and are now lumped together. This is the policy of the mad house bring back failure soon, as our country's prosperity depends on it.