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[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4201329.stm[/URL]
Around 200,000 teenagers are to receive £100 bonuses this week, under a government scheme which rewards them for continuing in education.
... had good enough attendance and effort levels last term to pick up the extra payments, which will be repeated in July and December.
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So, on top of the £30 means tested "allowance", they get a bonus for simply turning up? Way to spend our money, jackasses.
Around 200,000 teenagers are to receive £100 bonuses this week, under a government scheme which rewards them for continuing in education.
... had good enough attendance and effort levels last term to pick up the extra payments, which will be repeated in July and December.
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So, on top of the £30 means tested "allowance", they get a bonus for simply turning up? Way to spend our money, jackasses.
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It is silly.
Just because some kid is turning up for the money, it doesn't meant that they're actually interested in learning.
I thought that the EMA scheme was enough.
I mean, £30.
I never earned that much and I was working a job during 6th form.
Like that conservative geezer said, it's fiddling figures, getting a good attendance percentage through bribary, but that doesn't actually solve the problems cause by the lack of attendance.
Just because some kid is turning up for the money, it doesn't meant that they're actually interested in learning.
I thought that the EMA scheme was enough.
I mean, £30.
I never earned that much and I was working a job during 6th form.
Like that conservative geezer said, it's fiddling figures, getting a good attendance percentage through bribary, but that doesn't actually solve the problems cause by the lack of attendance.
Clazon wrote:
> Creepy wrote:
> Saturday night.
>
> I actually thought that you meant that at first, by re-validated your
> opinion, etc. by seeing if it was something like "I store it in
> my bank account". Atleast something productive.
>
> In short, you fail to suprise me.
> :|
>
>
> Also, why don't you go out on friday's? They're the best.
> :)
I was kidding!
I save it/use it to pay for things to help
Driving lessons
Books etc
We’re short of money as it is, so the money helps.
> Creepy wrote:
> Saturday night.
>
> I actually thought that you meant that at first, by re-validated your
> opinion, etc. by seeing if it was something like "I store it in
> my bank account". Atleast something productive.
>
> In short, you fail to suprise me.
> :|
>
>
> Also, why don't you go out on friday's? They're the best.
> :)
I was kidding!
I save it/use it to pay for things to help
Driving lessons
Books etc
We’re short of money as it is, so the money helps.
If they want to drop out of school let them.
They can enjoy clearing out my dustbins every week.
Given the abundance of other problems in Britain, I think this is utterly ridiculous.
They can enjoy clearing out my dustbins every week.
Given the abundance of other problems in Britain, I think this is utterly ridiculous.
So, I had a 99% attendance record (apart from my last year but that didn't count), passed all my exams easily AND had a part time job yet some little git gets £100 to have a FREE education.
This country is mental.
This country is mental.
Creepy wrote:
> Saturday night.
I actually thought that you meant that at first, by re-validated your opinion, etc. by seeing if it was something like "I store it in my bank account". Atleast something productive.
In short, you fail to suprise me.
:|
Also, why don't you go out on friday's? They're the best.
:)
> Saturday night.
I actually thought that you meant that at first, by re-validated your opinion, etc. by seeing if it was something like "I store it in my bank account". Atleast something productive.
In short, you fail to suprise me.
:|
Also, why don't you go out on friday's? They're the best.
:)
gamesfreak wrote:
> The only thing I can guess that it is designed for is the fact that
> University tuition fees go up for people starting in 2006.
If that was referring to my "obvious" part. Then yes, that's a third of it. The second is that it's an election year, so something revolutionary has to be done, to make a stand. The final piece of the puzzle is that People already in higher education obviously aren't the problem child and so don't need to be persuaded.
> The only thing I can guess that it is designed for is the fact that
> University tuition fees go up for people starting in 2006.
If that was referring to my "obvious" part. Then yes, that's a third of it. The second is that it's an election year, so something revolutionary has to be done, to make a stand. The final piece of the puzzle is that People already in higher education obviously aren't the problem child and so don't need to be persuaded.
Saturday night.
The only thing I can guess that it is designed for is the fact that University tuition fees go up for people starting in 2006.
Surely a more sensible thing to do would've been to take the money off Uni fees, or start a bond, or something that ensures the money will be used wisely/increase in size/etc?
What do you spend your money on then?
What do you spend your money on then?
I don’t spend it on a Friday night?
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