What will we do if tuition fees are uncapped ?

Why are our generation having all the bad changes forced on us? Idiots trying to mess up everything...grrrr. Rage. I'd better get down to some serious German learning. Thank God I chose that over History...

Surely that depends on what the job was?

It isn't always us.

What about the people who first had to pay after it had been free. I'd be more pissed off if that were me.

If you are a scientist - I would seriously suggest learning german in 6th form and applying to ETH Zurich where fee's are about £1000 a year - if not free.

Well yes, but generally an employer would pick the graduate (everything the same) and it was actually to point out his dimissal of arts students degrees when he failed his own.

Ah gotcha. Same here (and I'm an ELQ student too). Don't forget about studentships though! There's still hope And they haven't been uncapped (yet) lol

Yes, of course an employer would pick the candidate but it still depends on the job. Plenty of jobs out there would take someone who failed a software engineering degree over an arts graduate, i.e. a job based on programming or IT.

well I wouldnt because all failing a software engineering degree shows is that you fail at doing things like that

looking at unis in europe - the problem with that is that most of the uk does not speak a second language.

basically we're screwed. if they increase fees and then increase loans to match, there is no way most people are going to be able to repay it all. if they don't increase loans to match fees, then there's going to be uproar as many people won't have the option to go as a result.

No, that's true, but if undergrad fees are raised too steeply, saving up to do postgrad will be impossible. Which especially sucks for me, as I have my heart set on becoming a researcher now.

Just a thought. If the Browne review comes to the conclusion that tuiton fees must be uncapped to keep the 'standards of universities' strong, and we are faced between 7,000-14000 per year, what will future students plan to do ?

obviously not everyone is eligible for scholarships, nor do i think (considering capacity of universities) that scholarships will be given out as much as they are in america.

I think european universities look quite lucrative tbh. Or will people look for jobs straight out of school ?

Loans are written off after 25 years anyway so if someone pays off the bare minimum they are required too and can't pay it off in time it won't matter.

but the point is, where is the debt going if no one is paying it off?

David Willetts, universities minister, has already said that an increase in loans is a burden on the tax payer, so we can safely say that that idea will be ruled out.