I know, but I'm just a bit tired of being constantly told to buy stuff. What's wrong with renting and what on earth was wrong with free university education?
I graduated almost a decade ago and am still paying- back my old loan which was only about £12k in total, so goodness knows how the younger generation will manage...
Labour never considered trebling tuition fees like the Conservatives. I want to go to Swansea Uni to do engineering but it looks like I'll have to go for somewhere in London now
Because London is so much cheaper than Swansea? seen your following post explaining
I graduated almost a decade ago and am still paying- back my old loan which was only about £12k in total, so goodness knows how the younger generation will manage...
I do wonder sometimes whether or not this rapid increase in the number of universities (and, therefore, university students) has done more harm than good.
I thought the fees from the people doing "Mickey mouse" degrees subsidise science degrees which cost thousands more than you pay for? (Many need few resources and have low contact hours compared to science and "hard" degrees)
That's so disgusting. I still don't understand why the government can't just pay for our education like before?
Oh right, of course, I forgot – profit before people.
Thanks, Conservatives.
I'm not a conservative but surely you must realise that hardly any people went to university before... and now university is treated like an extenuation of High School. If the government wants 50% of people going to university then they will have to find a way of paying for it.
So you either:
Raise taxes; Charge Students for their own Degrees; Cut the budget from elsewhere to fund the others.
Or the government can borrow money in an unsustainable fashion for decades to come and bury their heads in the sand.
We can't keep having universal everything without having a massive tax hike. If we do that, everything will get more expensive and not a lot of people want a huge reduction in their purchasing power.