I find it a bit unfair that other people (taxpayer probably) should have to fund higher education so that people can go out & get a higher paid job, if they're getting a higher paid job at the end they should fund it themselves!! Graduate tax was probably the best idea I've heard...
At the moment between myself and my parents,i pay almost all (except couple hundred) university fees and the rest of my loans covers my living costs, rent, food and the occassional beer (comforts the fact I cannot afford to buy any clothes).
the point here isn't that students aren't paying for their education (because we bloody well are-no grant, just a loan that we pay back), but that they are expected to pay more to universities to pay back all the money government has pumped into uni's over the years.
Unless I was going into a job-specific degree (dentistry, medicine etc) I wouldn't go to university in 2006 or whenever these top-up fees apparantly come into effect. University experience is great, and to be honest, i learnt more from this and the interactions/work involved in the uni radio club (now a station) than i did from my course.
are you going to be pleased paying tens of thousands to send your kids to university? saving a "college fund" like parents in america have to do?
how about having to go to a cheaper university because you cannot afford to go to the best? you dont have to be on the poverty line to not be able to afford to spend tens of thousands of pounds. So therefore, people less well off have to settle for 2nd-rate education.
top-up fees are a disgrace to the concept of education being equally available to all. shows the mentality of a man who hangs out with the moron george bush, and agrees to bomb the bejesus outta Afganistan and then Iraq (and all the "collateral damage" involved) to find the "weapons of mass disappearance"
.. "I weep for the future"
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