£7000 Tuition Fees...

So, international reputation is more important than ensuring every child has an equal chance, and opportunity, to go to university?

I can only hope you're being facetious, because that's, frankly, a hideous way of thinking.

Don't say that anywhere. It says a lot about increases in bursaries but they would pay the same fees.

Only if you like equality and we aren't cuban.

I support the increased fees. Id like to see the best universities go private at some point too.

But in a de facto sense the rich would end up actually paying (or accruing a considerable ammount more debt) than the poor. You're right, though, that the actual fees themselves are the same.

I knew Britain was a capitalist country, but this is shocking. You're effectively suggesting that only the rich should be able to go to university. This isn't just about equality, but social engineering. I can't help being born into a family that isn't economically stable, this means I shouldn't be able to have the same quality of education as another guy? Total ****.

How does a move from 3k to 9k/year change the affordability of uni?

If it doesn't then it doesn't exclude anyone but reduces taxes for the poor who couldn't go to uni. Whats bad about that?

It obviously does, how can you contest that? I can just about afford 3 and a half grand, I can't afford 9 grand.

6 grand is a massive difference, despite what the rich would lead you to believe.

I support the increased fees. Id like to see the best universities go private at some point too.

By this do you mean that the government doesn't pay the tuition for students? If yes then only rich people will be able to to go to the top universities.

I think they should be capped at £3,500.

You pay 3,500 in advance?

Are grants etc going to be raised in line with tuition fees, then?

I asked you a question;

Do you pay 3,500 in advance?

I will answer this, but I don't want my question skipping :P

Bursaries would still exist, its not just the rich who go to college in the states.

Why 3,500 not 2,000 or 20,000?

No, but that isn't really that relevant, there's still the issue of post-uni debt.

I can just about afford 3 and a half grand, I can't afford 9 grand.

Then the bursaries will also need to be increases as well because I think a lot of students use it to pay of accommodation and other stuff.

So, international reputation is more important than ensuring every child has an equal chance, and opportunity, to go to university?

I can only hope you're being facetious, because that's, frankly, a hideous way of thinking.

In answer to the other question, I would expect bursaries would go up (since there is a bigger pot of money), not proportionally though. And why should they? The affordability of uni wouldnt have changed.