That would explain why in 1981, I was looking for Kevin Turvey in the credits when watching American Werewolf In London. I couldn’t find it. Just some geezer called Rik Mayall. 😂😂😂
From that time, degrees indeed ceased to carry any certain enough odds to result in a secure job to outweigh the debt argument against going to uni. That debt would make you more vulnerable to maltreatment by the dole system if you were in it. This the pressure-abusing exploitative type of school teachers ceased to have any good argument to push kids to try for uni.
This is from September 1981. Full grants for university students were still available until the end of that decade. 1997 saw the total scrapping of all grants and the introduction of student loans - that is when student debt burden began to skyrocket.
@@seanrm Grants did not cover what students averagely found the process's full cost, like all the right books, or accommodation if had not got it within the uni. Folks used to grumble about that. Also they were means tested by parents' income assuming that better off parents would contribute, regardless of whether they actually did and without making them.
@@conscienceaginBlackadder Well, I can only speak from personal experience: I got my degree '84 to '87 (Law) with a full grant and finished it owing nothing. I had a Saturday job + worked during the long summer breaks. It was neither easy not comfortable, but we got by. Mind you, back then, a nice 2-bed flat was only 50 quid a week - and we got a rent rebate off the local council for that, too. If I was a young person now, I would only go to uni if it was a specific requirement of the career I was interested in. For anything else, these days, it's a waste of time - and money.
@@seanrm so you needed a Saturday job to pull that off. You did well enough in your finding + choosing of one to balance your budget, but as you say, it was neither easy nor comfortable
@seanrm Ditto. I went to university in London 1978. I was on a full grant and managed fine. I had summer jobs but those were for travel costs not day to day living. I didn't run up any debt but did keep an eye on bank balance. Also I didn't booze every night which many contemporaries did. I was in university during the early Thatcher years, but even that mad witch didn't go full evil Tory. At least not to start with. She was cautious. When they abolished the maintenance grant they devalued higher education and created student debt servitude American style.
@davebeech If you were in your twenties then, you'd be in your sixties now, like me (65). It's called getting old. 😉 Everyone has a tendency to see the past through rose tinted specs. It wasn't all that great really. 40 years from now the current twenty somethings now, will be telling their grandkids about how great music was in their day with Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, is it ? OK, maybe they won't. But throwaway bubble gum pop from the 80s is now er..."classic" so who knows ? 🤔🤐🤨🤗🤭
Ide just like to thank the traditional working class for voting for Borris & to "Git Brexit Dun" over the guy who also wanted to leave the EU but do it sensibly & the guy who wanted to renationalise our infrastructure & get it out of the hsnds of greedy profiteers,the guy who would never refuse a pay rise for Nurses & who would never try to take away your right to protest,who didnt support vaccine mandates & lockdowns & who has a 40 year record of standing with the working class including giving two of his salary to the miners strike fund in 83 & 84,the guy who has never voted to send out millitarey into a war illegal or otherwise. And who is one of the few MP's who fights for the release of Julian Assange. Oh & ide also like to thank the millitary for releasing the video of them shooting a cardboard likeness of Corbyn,the man who didnt vote to send them to Iraq to die in the desert. Yeah we dodged a bullet there didnt we.....From Mansfield,Notts.
@fluffyfour Like I said could have voted for Corbyn but country told him to F'off. He wasnt the same infact the establishment destroyed him with smears& lies & kicked him out of the party for not being the same. If youre trying to say Corbyn is the same as the eveykne else then you are as ignorant as they come considering the lenths the establishment went to i their efforts to destroy him & stop any kind of people's movement & you bunch of flag shaggers did exactly what they told you to didnt you. Country deserves everything it gets. NHS needs to be scrapped next aswell if toy ask me,really make people think about their choices.
Job centres should be closed down under the trades descriptions act! 100% agree!
Miriam Margolyes before she became a National Treasure - so pretty as a young woman, too! Love her.
Kevin Turvey is still the funniest feature from this show.
Thanks for the upload 🙂 love 80s comedy 👍🤗
Rik Mayall is even named as Kevin Turvey in the credits ….
That would explain why in 1981, I was looking for Kevin Turvey in the credits when watching American Werewolf In London. I couldn’t find it. Just some geezer called Rik Mayall. 😂😂😂
Kevin Turvey looks like Johnny Rotten! Loving the blue Ford Cortina Estate 😁
Tracey Ullman and Richard Stillgoe..some old faces in there.....love Kevin Turvey...brilliant 😆😆
Really enjoyed that, do you have any more episodes? Apart from a short run of UK Gold repeats in the mid-90s this series has sadly been forgotten.
I think this is the only one, but I'm still going through my tapes. If I find any more, I'll upload them.
Glad i missed this as a kid.
How good is Rik’s Midlands accent?
NOT Midlands… it’s exclusive. ReDDITCH actually : D!
Title sequence designed by Peter Capaldi
oh?
put the subtitles on @1:50
Was that Miriam??
It certainly was!
The open uni student, getting up late?
Just to ask do you have a few CBBC on choice videos from 2001 ?
I'm sorry, I don't think I have.
@@charliebowser8553 ok
Richard Stilgoe - rather decent philanthropist. More power to his elbow.
This wouldn't be made today.........
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Hi Charlie
From that time, degrees indeed ceased to carry any certain enough odds to result in a secure job to outweigh the debt argument against going to uni. That debt would make you more vulnerable to maltreatment by the dole system if you were in it. This the pressure-abusing exploitative type of school teachers ceased to have any good argument to push kids to try for uni.
This is from September 1981.
Full grants for university students were still available until the end of that decade.
1997 saw the total scrapping of all grants and the introduction of student loans - that is when student debt burden began to skyrocket.
@@seanrm Grants did not cover what students averagely found the process's full cost, like all the right books, or accommodation if had not got it within the uni. Folks used to grumble about that. Also they were means tested by parents' income assuming that better off parents would contribute, regardless of whether they actually did and without making them.
@@conscienceaginBlackadder
Well, I can only speak from personal experience: I got my degree '84 to '87 (Law) with a full grant and finished it owing nothing.
I had a Saturday job + worked during the long summer breaks. It was neither easy not comfortable, but we got by. Mind you, back then, a nice 2-bed flat was only 50 quid a week - and we got a rent rebate off the local council for that, too.
If I was a young person now, I would only go to uni if it was a specific requirement of the career I was interested in. For anything else, these days, it's a waste of time - and money.
@@seanrm so you needed a Saturday job to pull that off. You did well enough in your finding + choosing of one to balance your budget, but as you say, it was neither easy nor comfortable
@seanrm
Ditto. I went to university in London 1978. I was on a full grant and managed fine. I had summer jobs but those were for travel costs not day to day living. I didn't run up any debt but did keep an eye on bank balance. Also I didn't booze every night which many contemporaries did. I was in university during the early Thatcher years, but even that mad witch didn't go full evil Tory. At least not to start with. She was cautious. When they abolished the maintenance grant they devalued higher education and created student debt servitude American style.
Ah, memories!
@davebeech
If you were in your twenties then, you'd be in your sixties now, like me (65). It's called getting old. 😉 Everyone has a tendency to see the past through rose tinted specs. It wasn't all that great really.
40 years from now the current twenty somethings now, will be telling their grandkids about how great music was in their day with Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, is it ?
OK, maybe they won't. But throwaway bubble gum pop from the 80s is now er..."classic" so who knows ? 🤔🤐🤨🤗🤭
I'm 54. @@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw
Ide just like to thank the traditional working class for voting for Borris & to "Git Brexit Dun" over the guy who also wanted to leave the EU but do it sensibly & the guy who wanted to renationalise our infrastructure & get it out of the hsnds of greedy profiteers,the guy who would never refuse a pay rise for Nurses & who would never try to take away your right to protest,who didnt support vaccine mandates & lockdowns & who has a 40 year record of standing with the working class including giving two of his salary to the miners strike fund in 83 & 84,the guy who has never voted to send out millitarey into a war illegal or otherwise.
And who is one of the few MP's who fights for the release of Julian Assange.
Oh & ide also like to thank the millitary for releasing the video of them shooting a cardboard likeness of Corbyn,the man who didnt vote to send them to Iraq to die in the desert.
Yeah we dodged a bullet there didnt we.....From Mansfield,Notts.
So now it's in the hands of a party whose first action was to remove winter fuel payments for the elderly. They're all the same.
@fluffyfour Like I said could have voted for Corbyn but country told him to F'off.
He wasnt the same infact the establishment destroyed him with smears& lies & kicked him out of the party for not being the same.
If youre trying to say Corbyn is the same as the eveykne else then you are as ignorant as they come considering the lenths the establishment went to i their efforts to destroy him & stop any kind of people's movement & you bunch of flag shaggers did exactly what they told you to didnt you.
Country deserves everything it gets.
NHS needs to be scrapped next aswell if toy ask me,really make people think about their choices.