Jeremy Corbyn plans to scrap tuition fees - is he right?

Pretty much this. I don't like how it's possible to get into university courses with A Level grades that are average or less than average (which is roughly a C). To me university should be reserved for the academic elite. It's supposed to be challenging and getting a degree is supposed to demonstrate that you are more academically able than most people. Under our current system a degree is becoming less valuable, especially as I believe I read earlier this year that more than 50% of 18 year olds intend to go to university. It completely destroys the notion that it's an elite institution when even people of average academic performance are going to university.

Well this is how the system is now and how it will be from here on out anyway. I do think universities should be mostly reserved for the most intelligent but then I also believe in foundation years to progress into a degree. I finished my A levels last year, I was predicted ABB which is fairly good but tough personal circumstances meant I fell a wee bit short and got ABC. I'm not a stupid person, the paper that came up for Chem was tougher than any past paper I had done and the teaching I received wasn't great for it. But Manchester University offered me the Foundation Year so that I could improve my understanding of the knowledge so that I could improve my standards. That as a route should remain open for those who fall short of entry requirements. But I think overall, the number of places does need to be more regulated because the universities are making a killing off of it.

I don't actually have much of an issue with foundation years. It's degrees where you need mostly Cs or lower to get on them that make me think something has gone wrong. If somebody is doing university for the right reasons and they just had a bad exam like you then that's fine. My issue is more with the culture of "I should go to university because everyone else does" and the response of "loads of people want to go to university, let's have more university places" has got out of hand.

Scrapping them is unsustainable

Could scrap them for high value degrees from real universities, but I don't see why doctors and engineers (and all working people) should fund idiots to do joke subjects at joke unis.

Higher education isn't a right.

That's impossible.

You're right it isn't. In my opinion it should be.

Could scrap them for high value degrees from real universities, but I don't see why doctors and engineers (and all working people) should fund idiots to do joke subjects at joke unis.

If you want to ruin your academic career, don't make me pay for it too.

Wherever possible, government funding should go on things which have a return on investment, or at least break even. I don't see how paying someone to bolster their own ego with a worthless degree will provide any return on investment.

Also, I don't see why rich people should have their degrees paid for by the tax of low(er) earners.

Labour Leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn is planning on scrapping tuition fees. Is this enough to make you vote for him (for leader or prime minister)? Or are there more important things on the political agenda. Are there better ways to spend £10bn?

Source:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/15/jeremy-corbyn-announces-10bn-plan-to-scrap-university-tuition-fees

No.

I would never vote for Corbyn regardless of what his policies are. He is an extremist apologist.

We could begin to afford it by scrapping the WOMD we have which we'll never use.

But I urge you for just £3 to become a Labour member and vote for him as leader, you will not regret it!