Whilst funding for Higher education in general is under by the current New-Labour administration, Postgraduate education in particular is completely ignored by the government. With over 500,000 postgraduate students this rapidly expanding sector is creating a new benchmark in skills required to achieve the top posts in the country. The inequality inherent in the current funding system is producing a situation where an hereditary educated elite monopolises the best training and the best jobs in the country.
This situation needs to change, graduates need to make a stand and demand not only access to jobs in line with their skills but access to opportunities from which the government currently excludes the majority.
Please sign the following on-line petition: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PostgradLoans/ . Let us make up the numbers and force Prime Minister Gordon Brown to give us an explanation as to why this situation is allowed to continue. Whilst banks and car makers get billions to bail out their failing and corrupt industries the education system is forced to cap the numbers of students and social mobility is postponed for yet another generation. This is not acceptable from a government which in name claims to support the Working Class. National debt may be expanding, but with only a fraction of the amount spent on supporting the high wages and bonuses of banker education could be used to provide a decent future to thousands of people.
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