I think university fees should be abolished

I think you can over-educate a population. No point having 3m doctors and no plasterers.

Secondly far far too many people go to university who don't deserve to. Many people seem to regard it as an excuse not to get a job and do ridiculous degrees at second rate universities and then complain about how much it's cost them, when really they shouldn't have gone at all. Fake universities (ie old polytechnics) offering silly degrees should closed. If you aren't clever enough to go to a proper university and study a good degree then you don't deserve to go. There are plenty of other career paths available for people who don't suit university. The government targets for getting everyone into higher education are reducing the value of a good degree and making a joke of the British education system.

If the government abolished fees then maybe they could aim for targets like 75-80% of youngsters going to university. If Britain wants to be a competitive economy with skilled and educated people, it needs to aim to get the whole of its young generation through the doors of a university. Britain annually churns out 300,000 graduates, whereas countries such as India and China churn out 2-3million. Therefore how can we compete? By removing the barriers that prevent people from going to uni; namely tuition fees. What do you guys think?

Do you know anything about the population of the UK? We don't physically have 2-3 million people of any the same school age to graduate every year. They do have 1 billion people in chian and india; India has an extortionate birth rate too. Getting rid of fees isn't going to magically make more 18 year olds appear to start uni. And how do you spose we fund universities then? We have some of the best unis in the world (oxbridge, ucl, durham, manchester, notts), because they all have good funding. If poorer people don't go to uni, it is rarely due to the cost. tuition fees are not payed until you get a good job with a good wage. If you go to uni and get a job with a crap wage, well then obvs wasn't much point in you doing that degree; graduates should go and get better paid jobs; and they almost always do. You should join the ukyp campaign, the staffordshire myps are leading it. google it

What's wrong with having well-educated plasterers?

I think you can over-educate a population. No point having 3m doctors and no plasterers.

Its a waste of time. A lot of people aren't academic and aren't interested in spending yet more time in the academic stage of education. If plasterers want to be studying history thats all well and good, but they shouldn't be encouraged to do so just for the sake of it - I'm sure most plasterers would rather be out plastering


I find the idea of free university education quite distasteful. University is expensive, and confers a considerable long-term benefit on many of those who go. Those who get the benefits of a university education over their career should pay for it over their careers - its simple fairness.
Trying to get everyone to go, or even more than 50% of people to go to university is an utter nonsense. Practical training or starting work are much more suitable for a lot of people than a university education.
As long as everyone has the opportunity to go to university if its the right thing for them, that is enough.

The point is that university should be available if you want to go and are able enough. Having university fees closes the option of going to university to some who might wish to go otherwise. I don't think anyone's saying everyone should go to university, just that it should be open to more people.

It really doesn't, though. The current system ensures that everyone can afford university, with the levels of support currently available.

Its a waste of time. A lot of people aren't academic and aren't interested in spending yet more time in the academic stage of education. If plasterers want to be studying history thats all well and good, but they shouldn't be encouraged to do so just for the sake of it - I'm sure most plasterers would rather be out plastering.