You are right, although as I've said in my previous post there is possibly a misunderstanding of how knowledge is passed in this country sometimes - we are not talking about GCSE maths when we are talking about the eduction of Engineers and Architects, as a process it's very different.

However, there is a cycle to all of these things - you need the companies for the eduction, you need the eduction for the companies - we have the companies, debatably the eduction is suffering at the moment, although I personally believe that is less to do with the eduction process, more to do with the aspirations of young people in this country, generally speaking. In otherwords, we need to keep building, keep recruiting local were possible, bringing in skill were needed in order to stimulate the whole system.

spoken as someone who has enjoyed the excess of the schools building programme.

Why is it that in my everyday life I come across people from the developing world that happily learn in a mud hut?

We need to get back to having disciplined and inspiring teachers, I spent many of my school years learning in a portakabin, it wasn't detrimental to my learning, the only two subjects that woefully failed me were French and Biology, and that was because my teachers for both were totally uninspiring and made the subject as painful as pullin teeth.

FFS Standee, if you knew what working on BSF was like budget wise, you would never have used the word "enjoyed". 3.21142578125:5