Bill Harvey: Don’t need a weatherman

Remember when a government aide sent a memo to staff suggesting that ‘9/11’ might be a good time to ‘bury’ any controversial news?

So much is changing at present that it might be all too easy to miss out on contributing to the debate surrounding changes, proposed by the GOC, to the way we qualify and how we stay up to date once qualified.

Every time a student tells me that voting is a waste of time, my heart sinks. I know they will be the first to object in future when politicians make decisions that affect them adversely. My brood now always vote, having been fired up by the changes to student tuition fees or, for my daughter in the United States, anything Trump says. And even if it seems a vote is worthless (and electoral systems do undermine voter significance), you cannot moan about something unless you have tried to resist it.