My grave concern about tripling university tuition fees is that it is a flawed business plan. A bank would not lend thousands of pounds on the pretext that it might be paid back ONLY IF the students secures a job with a salary of £21,000.
With the proposed changes mature students, for example, can take out a loan to pursue their own academic interests and have no intention of working afterwards. And what if the student comes from an EU country and returns home after the course is completed, what measures are there to ensure this public loan will be repaid?
Students don’t regard the Lord Browne proposal as a loan, it is perceived as a massive debt. On top of that, they will not have improved tuition as there are proposed cuts for university teaching staff too.
The government is asking too much too soon. Why couldn’t the rise have been introduced in smaller increments in fairness to the students? I know it is not a precise analogy, but if householders were told their utility bills and taxes were going to triple within a year or two, they would also feel outraged.
You need to see todays Guido Fawkes video on Ed Byrne ( favourite media leftie ) when caught out telling porkies on the Tele ( he states hes never done any work for the Labour party promoting university fees )
As for the mob once again breaking up Whitehall it tells you a lot about modern students .
And why is it that not a one they interview can pronounce the English language correctly , and they expect to get top draw jobs , and pigs might fly.
PS Did anyone else note that these supposed super guys ( so intelligent ) when trashing police vans couldnt find suitable latin or ancient Greek or even Shakespearian words to daub but instead used an old boring vulgar Anglo Saxon expletive fuc-.
I rest my case.
Think Ill apply for a place as a senior citizen wishing to do Tudor history.
PS I left school at 15.
Disaffected, I did hear about this and thanks for the heads up, will do.
Re the Anglo Saxon expletives, maybe the students don’t want to write messages which nobody will understand.
Disaffected – I’m given to believe that there is nothing wrong with a good fuc-