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18+ Things To Do On The Island Today (Tuesday 22nd)

Rachael Brooks·

Events On The Isle of Wight TodayIf you’ve time on your hands today then why not consider one of the many events on the Isle of Wight.

There is so much to see and do.

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Occam
15, December 2010 6:43 pm

turner will not be there.

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romeantique
Reply to  Occam
15, December 2010 8:01 pm

Undoubtedly, still best to take a length of stout rope anyway, just in case its needed.

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Robbo
Reply to  Occam
15, December 2010 8:10 pm

I have heard that he now holds his Friday surgeries at places unknown to avoid this sort of protest

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Don Smith
Reply to  Robbo
15, December 2010 11:55 pm

He’s staying with me at my third home at Westminster:-)

Protests must be peaceful or they will lose credibility. I would love him to come out and address the protesters and give his reasons why he supported his coalition Lib/Dems wimps.

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Communist
16, December 2010 8:52 am

The recent student upsurge in action over the fee increases and cuts in education in general, can be seen as more fundamentally about what education is for. What is its place and why should it be funded? Why should it be public and free? Students are answering these questions from their own perspective. Students being political remains the issue. Students are forcibly ending their marginalisation, placing themselves… Read more »

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mark francis
16, December 2010 9:01 am

Too right comrade!
All this rioting and trashing Tory Party HQ!
Didn’t think they had it in them. Restores yer faith in the younger generation.

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victor meldrew
16, December 2010 9:54 am

I might have it wrong – BUT – Article 26 of the UN Convention of Human Rights places a requirement for higher education to be available to all. I quote:
“Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.”

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Plato
Reply to  victor meldrew
16, December 2010 12:22 pm

You missed the first bit out; ‘education should be free…’

Anyway a couple of thoughts:

1) Does this remind anyone of those French protests of ’68, “Sois jeune et tais toi” & the fabulous “Une jeunesse que l’avenir inquiete trop souvent”

2) Is this a load of shouty kids or the start of something else? A new peasants revolt?

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Chris Wilmott
Reply to  victor meldrew
18, December 2010 11:02 am

Unfortunately these Tory (by which I also now mean LibDem) dictators will point out that higher education IS available to everyone, in exactly the same way as Eton, the Ritz, Quaglino’s….

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ABC
16, December 2010 9:58 am

I have misgivings about this demo and I hope I am wrong. So far, 117 people have said they will take part but it is likly to attract many more given the publicity it has had in recent days. That number on the pavement outside Mr Turner’s office will be a tight squeeze and the timing of 4pm – just as daylight fades – is worrying. I… Read more »

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No.5
Reply to  ABC
16, December 2010 10:13 am

surely the point of a protest is for the protest to be seen……we can all protest from the comfort of our computers and look how effective that has been.

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isleofvibe
16, December 2010 5:21 pm

Now I could well be leaving myself wide open here but i have to say i agree with the increases. We are entitled to a free education and we get that until we are 16. You want more education, then at present you are going to have to pay for it. If this means the end of people taking worthless degrees in Popular music ( i recently… Read more »

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No.5
Reply to  isleofvibe
16, December 2010 7:28 pm

surprised..not really…I generally agree with you. I would rather see an increase on apprentiships and other work related qualifications and a lot less of pointless degree courses. On another angle…upto £9000 per student per year is going to be paid to the univercities in the form of a loan from the government…at the same time they hope to increase numbers attending universities..thus increasing the number of applicants… Read more »

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Chris Wilmott
Reply to  isleofvibe
18, December 2010 11:15 am

No, isleofvibe is wrong in several ways: this is not a minority suffering for the sake of the majority, but exactly the opposite. Greedy bankers and short-term thinking by politicians put us into this mess, but neither group will suffer; only be the poor, the young, the defenceless and the vulnerable will pay. And those well-off people who moan about the prospect of losing child benefit simply… Read more »

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mark francis
16, December 2010 8:47 pm

When I was a student 4% of the population went to University (as we called it at the time – not “Uni”). Now its 40%. I paid no fees and got a full grant (on account of my family having no money- or rather my grant was higher than my mother’s wages cleaning bars in Sandown). But are there ten times as many graduate jobs? What is… Read more »

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jackie
16, December 2010 9:14 pm

The issues at stake here are far more reaching than just withdrawing EMA and putting up tuition fees. EMA has allowed many kids to stay on in education, and that includes some lower paid apprenterships. Lets face it, there are so few jobs and kids leaving school at 16 can’t sign on, so how do they live? Child benefit is withdrawn once a child comes out of… Read more »

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Len
16, December 2010 9:23 pm

Maybe if a University/College education was cheaper for English , Math’s and Science it might make more sense. Lots of current degree course options are a complete waste of time.

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Don Smith
Reply to  Len
18, December 2010 1:14 pm

I agree that many subject are a complete waste of time – They just want to tell people that they have a degree. Most of these who gain useless degrees finish up on a supermarket checkout or driving a white van. Not that I have anything against the two latter occupations; they are creditable jobs. Many just want a gap year, to go around the world wasting… Read more »

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Shobba
16, December 2010 9:47 pm

In my day, as soon as we reached fourteen, ALL of us got a job. Usually after school hours, Saturday or Sunday, the holidays. We carried on working like this alongside our education. We did it because everyone did and we needed the money. Why did that stop? It seems to me the current generation are often bone idle, it’s far easier to collect £30 a week… Read more »

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david
Reply to  Shobba
16, December 2010 9:51 pm

You live in the dark ages. I have 2 boys at the IOW College and they bring home £60 a week EMA which helps with our family budget.

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bob about
Reply to  david
16, December 2010 10:24 pm

The most expensive degree’s are those that this country will never see a return on their money: Media sudies? Handgliding? Pop music?

Quite agree that the more obscure courses should be charged at the highest rates…

The courses that will benefit the country are working out at much less cost: Law, Nursing, occupational Health etc etc

Hope I made my point.

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No.5
Reply to  david
16, December 2010 10:40 pm

EMA is an essential part of a poorer families income where a member of that family is in higher education…a fact recoqnised by every professional organisation

No doubt this just passes people with very little knowledge of what people in higher education on low budgets, like Shobba, go through

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mark francis
Reply to  No.5
17, December 2010 7:09 am

EMA costs the government less than dole money.

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jackie
17, December 2010 9:03 am

just as a matter of interest, the most common reason I’ve heard for agreeing to the loss of EMA is ‘well I never got paid for going to school’…Jealousy or what?? Point 1..there are very FEW jobs out there for adults, let alone kids. Point 2…EMA has taken FURTHER education out of the domain of the financially better off. Point 3… it has enabled more kids from… Read more »

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RTUC
17, December 2010 4:50 pm

Solidarity with students from the working class. We hope your protest is successful and achieves its aims on behalf of all young people on the island.

Ryde and East Wight Trades Council.

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