I am from a disadvantaged background, from a poor area (it's an ex-mining village) and first to go to university in my family.
I don't care about the tuition fees, they are the same everywhere almost. I won't pay it all back.
What is annoying is the living costs. My parents earn just over the £25,000 threshold. The cost of living is rising, wages have stalled, yet the thresholds haven't risen. I will be getting no bursary from the university because my parents earn over the £25,000 threshold, that is £4,000 lost. I can't get the bursary that is specific to my course because my parents earn over £25,000, yet another £3,000 lost. If I was in the below £25,000 bracket I would be over the moon at going to university, but again it is the people in the middle that get beaten for it.
It's not the poor that need help, it's those in the middle that have relatively little help with maintenance costs. They don't take into account siblings and other expenditure.