Tuition fees going up to £9000 a year

Oh look an overreaction to the tuition fee question. How unusual :rolleyes:

How can University be too expensive when you don't have to pay anything to attend, and if you graduate into an average grad salary of £25k, only have to pay back £negligble each month (you don't know the money is missing anyway, because it gets taken away via PAYE automatically..)
 
£25k? Good luck with that. Think the starting salary of todays grads averages to around £18k...

TBH I still think they should reduce the places and fund the places that are available ith more money (thus reducing costs to individuals).

EDIT:

Labour's Gareth Thomas said the fee hike represented a "tragedy for a whole generation of young people".

Weren't they the party that introduced fees in the first place?

I do feel sorry for new entrants though because a large proportion will have to pay the same again to do a masters to actually get a reasonable job, unless this fee increase reduces the number of graduates.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11677862

I feel really sorry for young people these days. Can't get a job because there aren't any, can't go to university because it's too expensive. Tbh if I was young again it'd be difficult to see any sort of future for myself in this country.

Good, as it should be. Blair ruined this country with his 'access for all' attitude. Now it's in a right mess. University should only be for those that can afford it.
 
Good, as it should be. Blair ruined this country with his 'access for all' attitude. Now it's in a right mess. University should only be for those that can afford it.

Yes I suspect that is the ideology behind the coalition government's education policies. There was me thinking that University should only be for those who are clever enough though...
 
Why are you rolling your eyes? Tell me why I am wrong.

You still have to pay it back though.

I see your edit now though.

Edit: I think the fees are a bit stupid though. I pay ~3k per year and get 6 months holiday :/ My (and many others) degree could easily be condensed down to 1-2 years of work.
 
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There was me thinking that University should only be for those who are clever enough though...

That's true as well, don't get me wrong. But higher breeding tends to produce cleverer classes of people with more money. Sure, there may be a few intellectual diamonds in the rough on the council estates, but let's not all flood the unis with the hoi polloi to find out. Unfortunately Blair has given people the idea that everyone's entitled to this kind of education, and the problem is the graduate market is now flooded with people with useless degrees and there are far more graduates than jobs available. The government has a massive, massive mess to clear up.
 
Welcome to the world where there is a refusal to acknowledge that we are sending too many people to university, doing too many subjects that aren't needed/make no sense, to do jobs that shouldn't require a degree.

Fees are a direct result of this.
 
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