The Anonymous Widower

Fined for Enrolling Too Many Students

My late wife was a governor at Anglia Ruskin University, so I take note of what happens there.

It has just been announced on the local BBC News, that the University has been fined £600,000 by NuLabor for recruiting too many students.  They are not the only one to be fined, as this article in the Telegraph details.

Now I’m not one who believes that all and sundry with three E’s should go to University on leaving school, but I do feel that in times of high unemployment, that Universities and other colleges should be used to give needed skills to those without jobs.

So fining those Universities who take on more students is just another load of old Balls from NuLabor’s Stalin Central.  If anything Universities should be praised and rewarded if they manage to give good education to more students.

Can anybody tell me where the fines will go?  Into Nulabor’s general pot for bonkers ideas no doubt. 

I should say, that for some years my software has been used by the Department of Education and Science, or whatever politically correct name it is now and the guy I talk to can document loads of failed ideas that have cost billions of pounds to such as fraud.  It would have been better to plug these leaks and then there wouldn’t be a funding crisis.

February 18, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | News | Education, NuLabor