We live in a brave new world. Our cities
have grown from the earth and soared higher than mountains. Our technical and
scientific achievements have sped up our evolution by decades. However, we are
still victims of a crumbling economy. Why? The primary cause of this is
corruption, greed and moral degradation within the political systems of the
world.
We all held our
ideologies in such high regard. We were smug and proud of what we had achieved,
but in this modern world behind this film of sheepish hypocrisy, lives’ a
murky, deep and mudded sea of self-interest and lies.
We had ideas that
would advance us economically and as a people. Now we wish to only better
ourselves individually. Case and point, the increase in the university fees in
the UK. The cap of £3,000 was placed in order to provide equality in some small
way. So that those who went into higher learning were not discriminated by
their economic background. Now we are forced to forgo a University education
due to a lack of money.
This is a
short-term solution for our current economic problem. Of course this will
stimulate the economy and cause a growth in that particular sector. Or so they
thought? Surely with higher fees less people will go. Statistics showed a 8.7%
drop in applications in the year of 2012, as it was the first year to implement
the new fee scheme. This drop means that even the governments reasoning is
flawed.
In truth this is
only going to stifle the growth of a series of key generations that will lead
us into the brave future beyond this economic downturn. This will mean less
highly educated people and thus less people to fill the jobs we have been
proven to be the best at. As a country, our greatest export is educated workers
in the tertiary sector. With less of these people we are going to be flooding
one sector of the job market. More people will be vying for the jobs in trades
cluttering this area and stiffing our growth technologically and, as a knock on
effect, our growth as an economy.
The motivating
factor behind this move for our current government was purely short term. They
saw a way of making money back now and hadn’t outwardly considered the
ramifications of their actions. Now, I’m not going to claim to have all the
answers and this is merely my opinion. I feel that this is a bad move designed
to ensure that Cameron’s back is covered, a idea that is evident in Cleggs
recent apology for going back on a promise he made before the election.
I hope I’m wrong
about everything in this article. I hope that in a decade, when my generation
and the generation following me are running the country, we are able to do so
to the best of our ability and without any hindrance in education. I hope that
Cameron proves me wrong in the remainder of his term. As the sun sets on today
we head into uncertain times. I hope we can rekindle our love of forward
thinking as a country for the sun will soon rise on tomorrow and we need to be
ready for a brave new world.
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