£9000 Tuition fees

[wanda]

This made me think what is the point in protesting? Clearly the majority of people are against it yet they go ahead and vote it in. Is this why people are encourager to demonstrate peacefully, because it makes no difference?

Reminds me of the demonstration against the war in Iraq.

Well I think now my daughter will have to learn another language and if she wants to go to university she will have to go abroad in Europe to study.

[Ray]

9k is a lot, but some top US uni's want more than double that a year. but yes, for 9k, i'd definitely go abroad to study. it'd cost less inc living costs a year!

[Stranger]

Come on, you'll reap a better pay packet, get fast tracked through the ranks, be available to go for more positions of course cheap education has to stop.

The way the students have behaved in London is a disgrace and their repayments should start with damages to property.

It's fine to protest but do it like the students in Leeds have been doing by having a sit in, no damage done, no-one hurt and be better thought of and therefore listened to by more people.

[wanda]

The problem is there is about 4 professions where you can make money, banking, Law, medicine and accountancy (ok maybe politics). For the rest of us getting past £21k is a struggle, even with qualifications.

[davelowe]

If you subscribe to The Times newspaper, this: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/c ... 836693.ece is a brilliant analysis of why the fees are necessary. And £9k is a cap.

[steve-t]

Don't want to pay then don't.
Get a job and do something for a year.
A/ you'll save enough to pay for education
B/ If no one has gone to uni for a year bet the price has gone down
Simply suply and demand
WHY WERE THE RIOTERS SORRY PROTESTERS NOT AT LECTURES IF EDUCATION IS SO IMPORTANT TO THEM?
Steve

[davelowe]

Students pay no fees upfront. This point is missed by many people. So is the fact that the poorest students will pay less than they do under the current system.

"The IFS concluded that the poorest third of graduates would pay back less than they do now."

I hear idiots screaming on the news that they can't afford up to £9k a year as if they are being asked to write out a cheque on the spot.

It will be interesting to see how the student/police debate plays out. Do you think the police were heavy handed by beating a student about the head leading to brain surgery being required? Spot of kettling anyone?

[wanda]

Students pay no fees upfront. This point is missed by many people. So is the fact that the poorest students will pay less than they do under the current system.

"The IFS concluded that the poorest third of graduates would pay back less than they do now."

I hear idiots screaming on the news that they can't afford up to £9k a year as if they are being asked to write out a cheque on the spot.

It will be interesting to see how the student/police debate plays out. Do you think the police were heavy handed by beating a student about the head leading to brain surgery being required? Spot of kettling anyone?

The main problem I can see is that the introduction of the £9000 fees is a start in a very slippery slope down the route of privatisation, where sooner or later the state will wash their hands of the responsibility of subsidising University fees. Then the poor will be in serious trouble and then we will have no leg to stand on when foreign doctors, lawyers and other professionals will get most of the jobs.