Hire Learning

Though occasionally a factor in teaching students to think clearly and in broadening their cultural horizons, higher education does have one or two legitimate advantages. Despite years of budgetary slashings and staff sackings, British universities still retain their snob value as producers of prestige graduates. While the little people content themselves with attending the Academy of Hard Knocks, future world leaders are purchasing courses at Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE, always provided their national treasuries can handle the tuition fees. Nevertheless, the university industry continues to fail in its primary purpose, that of assisting the country's economic growth by turning an adequate profit. Accordingly, the Minister for Human Resources Training has announced the inevitable "tough decisions" to sack more staff and slash more budget.