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Do you still feel supportive towards students over the rise in tuition fees?  

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  1. 1. Do you still feel supportive towards students over the rise in tuition fees?

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The Jock oil revenue arguement is wearing a bit thin, reality is it's British oil and gas, and running out - but basically, over 50million English tax-payers support 5million Jocks, 1 million Taffs and 1 million Paddies! :wink:

if it's British oil & gas, then it's British tax money, not English.

 

What is getting tiresome is your constant ignorant little Englander posts. There's a reason the Scots & Welsh voted for devolution, and people like you are a large part of it :roll:

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...the withdrawal of some EMAs...

 

 

Not saying this hasn't happened, but the (old) news is that new applications for EMA ceased on 31/12/2010. People already in receipt of EMA will continue to receive it until the end of the academic year (providing they continue to satisfy the conditions).

 

No details of what, if anything, will replace it in September, have been announced - HMG haven't worked it out yet.

 

...will this generation become politicised...

 

I sincerely hope so (and this is what Tom's been saying on that other thread).

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With the effects of the fee protests and the withdrawal of some EMAs; and the latest figure of a 20% level of youth unemployment - will this generation become politicised - and will they find an ideology to focus their anger? :?

 

EMAs - the last governments attempt to keep youth unemployment at bay by bribing them to stay on at school. Not bribing them to learn anything mind you, just to sign in as having attended. Generations before 2004 managed to get a better education without the need to be bribed to turn up at school. Another policy on the hoof with no thought to the consequences. :roll::roll::roll:

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The EMA grant is/was somewhat unfair (and I'm not saying that just because my son couldn't apply for it)

 

But he sees almost everyone else at college getting it ranging from the full amount of ?30 a week down to the lower amount of ?10 a week.

 

In some cases I wonder how they did get it considering their parents are living in big houses, have good jobs and are driving around in expensive flashy cars etc :?

 

Anyway.. they do get it and almost ALL of the kids spend it on clothes, games and other luxuries.... it's like a gift from heaven with nothing that you have to do for it other than to turn up at college.

 

It's done my son good not getting it though as unlike most of his friends he actually works on his days off college and earns his own 'spends' :wink:

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Under 18s can only claim "dole" under certain circumstances, it isn't the norm.

 

At one local college the students don't get EMA if they miss one lesson in a week or if they're off sick, if just for a day.

 

EMA really helps some kids and their families, and it's a cheap way of keeping young people on track.

 

It's easy to say they should get a job, but unemployment for youngsters is running at something like 20%. However much we'd like it to be so, apprenticeships aren't falling out of the trees around here.

 

Maybe EMA does need to be more "targetted", but HMG should be careful about how they apply this.

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