Originally Posted by
Traffic_Is_Er_Was
Thus allowing the providers of said higher education to morph into businesses....big businesses. Obviously flying schools have always been businesses, and now benefit from being seen as a "higher education" providers and given access to the same trough. As long as the government will effectively advance the student whatever the business decides it will charge, there is no incentive to lower the fees, or to stop them accepting anyone with a pulse. All higher education facilities in this country are now just sausage factories, churning out thousands of over-qualified/under-experienced debt ridden students looking for jobs that in the main don't exist. At the end of the day, the business always gets the money. It's the taxpayer who may never see it returned.
I agree with most of what you say, but not all flying schools have their snouts in the trough, though it is very easy to pick out the posters on this thread that do. Some schools don't want to deal with the bureaucracy and still prefer to give quality over quantity. Most sausage factories have a pretty limited lifespan, I've seen so many of them come and go over the years. There's a lot of money in it for a few while the ponzi scheme lasts, Neel Whotsisname from Soar on the Rich List as an example. Where did that $67 million of taxpayers money go? The ministers who promoted his scheme should have been held accountable.
I disagree that all universities are sausage factories, visa factories yes, but there are good quality science degrees out there.