The Diary Room

[prettyxcool]

I think the issue is not what is prescribed just the lack of attention with regard to who is getting what and why. The main question should be do they really have a need or are they just chancing their arm!

Totally agree here with you destresserai. If it is for a medical condition, then it should be available on prescription. When my son was a baby, he had such sensitive skin condition that the only thing that worked for him was a special sun cream only available on prescription.

@aruif - condoms are free from family planning clinics, if you don't want anything fancy! I agree about sanitary products. Also, we are giving birth to the next generation of workers and tax payers, the least the Government could do is assist with some of that cost, and don't get me started about uni fees! There was a documentary recently on who gets the best jobs - and in this day and age, it is still people with money and connections, the Government is pricing out a lot of talent from the less well of people who already have less opportunities. They need to invest in people, who in turn will build up the economy when they start working and p*ying taxes which p*y for Government spending. If people are uneducated and unemployable it would be more of a drain on the economy.

The Government are cutting spending on the important and necessary things. They need to be more far sighted.

[zildjian]

The uni fee's is a tough one for me. I stay in Scotland, thus mine get pa*d for me. However, the department for my course has been slashed from 40 to 22! And is planned to go to 9 by the time i finish my degree... My education has suffered a fair bit due to this.

[aruif]

zildjian, there are less courses available for people to even apply to, lots of courses available at my uni when i started 6 years ago are non existent now.

so not only are fees going up, wages going down, staff cut and courses cut.

just because you have a degree doesn't make it any easier to get a job either. i've got 2. it's a total myth.

[tilly]

I just read that London universities want to start charging £9000 a year for tuition fees, way too much! It's going to prevent a lot if students in going which is a shame!

[tilly]

zildjian, there are less courses available for people to even apply to, lots of courses available at my uni when i started 6 years ago are non existent now.

so not only are fees going up, wages going down, staff cut and courses cut.

just because you have a degree doesn't make it any easier to get a job either. i've got 2. it's a total myth.

I do agree. I don't think you need a degree to get a job as most ask for experience anyway, plus it is also who you know!

[zildjian]

What subjects are your degree's?

The problem in Scotland is that our tuition fee's are pa*d for us which is good. However, there a fair few who go that show absolute no interest in their work and distract others. Poor attendance etc...

[zildjian]

@tilly, I have my reservation about the london universities. Their fee's are the full whack, i thought before then people were priced out the market anyway via accomodation and all the other stuff that goes along with going to schools like oxford and all that jazz. I dont know if that made much sense.

I agree with experience. I currently have a placement lined up which is relevant to my degree and also done one last summer. For the experience.

[aruif]

i'm so thankful i went to uni when i did. it gave me the opportunity to do so many things that i'd never have been able to do in my life if i had stayed in the job i hated.

i can't imagine how i'd have felt if i had had the option of going to uni taken away from me. along with learning to drive, it was easily the best thing i've done in my life. i feel for those who won't get that chance now, it makes me want to cry actually

[tilly]

I do feel the same. I graduated 10 years ago and loved It however my degree is not relevant for my current job unfortunately. It is great to have a degree but only if it is relevant to the job!

[Ms Thrifty]

If your employer offers you the opportunity to gain a work-related qualification, that can be an interesting and worthwhile experience. I feel amazingly lucky, after all this time, to be given this chance and am surprised to find that it's actually engaging and motivating me. So it's win-win: I take more interest in my job and my employer has staff better qualified to do whatever it is. Most of the time I don't even have to leave the office as my tutor visits me at work at a time to suit me, though I am going to have to go to college for a couple of days soon - but in official time still.