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Monday 19 February 2018

The BBC admitted –


As many folk know too well, the BBC is particularly prone to mingle opinion with news. A recent example concerns the political football that is university tuition fees.

Tuition fees: Theresa May challenges over-priced universities

The prime minister is to call for better value for students in England, admitting they face "one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world".


Theresa May will announce an independent review of fees and student finance on Monday.

She will also argue for an end to "outdated attitudes" that favour university over technical education.

Labour says it would abolish fees and bring back maintenance grants.

It almost slips through without being noticed, but in what sense is Mrs May admitting that we have one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world?

Is it supposed to be her fault or her responsibility? In the eyes of her political opponents, no doubt it is her responsibility but the BBC is not supposed to number itself among her political opponents.

Curiously enough the word is politically incorrect in the sense that she has no such responsibility and isn’t admitting anything. She is describing a situation she didn't cause and cannot even begin to tackle without constructive and widespread political will.

7 comments:

Sam Vega said...

The admitting is best left to the universities. They'll admit virtually anyone.

Demetrius said...

All the major parties are implicated in this disaster. We are now worse off than when pupils left school at 14 and did seven year apprentice training, often allied to college courses. A small number were graduates for specific areas and teacher training was separate at the time.

Scrobs. said...

Never feel a feck about the bbc. Rubbish autocue reading and bias beyond repair.

Haven't watched their news since September last year - much better to see the headlines in the online rags, then go and do something useful, like paint the shed.

Woodsy42 said...

Like almost every other quasi-establishment and government body they take maximum advantage of the rules to feather their own nests. So we have among the most expensive universities, just as we have some of the highest per mile road and bridge tolls, some of the highest local government taxation, some of the highest petrol prices, some of the highest rail prices, some of the highest old age care costs, some of the highest house prices and rental costs - etc.

James Higham said...

Why can't the pollie class just do something right for once?

wiggiatlarge said...

The "diversity" agenda of the BBC continues apace, anybody who saw the ten o'clock news on the BBC last night and the piece with Teresa May on the uni fees would have seen her at a table with about a dozen students all as far as I could see non white.
Then interviewed two black students twice, you would believe if you didn't know better the piece was shot in Lagos.

A K Haart said...

Sam - to study virtually anything as far as I can see.

Demetrius - I agree, although Tony Blair seems to have been a major player.

Scrobs - we are the same, never watch it. Why watch an overpaid factotum telling us things we've already read on the internet?

Woodsy - and they cling to it like limpets. Right and wrong don't come into it.

James - choice might get a foot in the door.

Wiggia - I find the best antidote is don't watch it.