MK wrote:
>The interesting thing is that physics has never been seen as a way of
>earning money by the sackful. The difference between now and when I did a
>physics degree is that money is now seen to be the be all and end all. I
>studied physics because it was fun and I reckoned that I would get a
>reasonable job.
>
>I would not put the change of attitude solely down to the introduction of
>fees. More than a decade of Mrs Thatcher telling us that greed is good, OK
>that was Gordon Gecko but that women certainly fuelled the notion, has
>taken
>its toll. Didn't help that her regime spent years crapping on educators,
>social workers and other "parasites".
Surely most students today are far too young to remember the Thatcherite
era? Fees might not be the only reason students choose their degree subject
by how lucrative their future job offers might be. But I'm not sure that
blaming a money-obsessed youth is the answer either. A potential graduation
debt of £10000 is probably reasonable motivation for wanting to ensure that
you don't end up with a badly-paid lab job, in which contracts are getting
shorter all the time.
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