David Cameron Brands Students “Snobby”

According to our Prime Minister, an increase in tuition fees has cause students to get “fussier” about the courses they are signing up for.

Speaking at the launch of new apprenticeship schemes at the Mini plant in Oxford, He said “because we are asking students to make a bigger contribution in terms of fees and paying them back over their lives, I think students are getting more fussy about what it is they are putting themselves in for.”

The only response this Tab writer can come up with is way to state the obvious David Cameron.

As one of the lucky students who started her university degree before prices were extortionately raised, choosing my degree was partly so I could use it to further my career and also because I enjoyed the subject. At the time, it was already expensive and now that students have to pay up to £9000 a year, it makes sense that we will question how courses are taught and question our career prospects. Going so far as to label this snobbery, especially from someone who undoubtedly chose his own university course for the same reason is slightly idiotic.

Choosing a degree because you want a career out of it isn’t snobbery, it is common sense. At the end of the day, you are investing in your future something that is particularly important considering the current job market. It seems that the Prime Minister may be trying to justify the raise in tuition fees, a decision that has been fervently opposed by many, by saying that “we are now going to find out which degrees really benefit people, because it will be young people choosing to study and doing that increasingly on the basis of ‘what will it do for my career?”

Yes people may actively choose subject that are more marketable, but it should not diminish the worth of any degree or apprenticeship. Tuition fees aside, any one person choosing to further their education will always do it with some thought of their future.