Fookin students....

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Yanto

So its likely all the Ba (Hons) Dog Shampooers wont have to pay back anything ! Meanwhile those who excel in a profession will soon have the means to pay back..

another reason why its just badly thought out!

[Yanto]

Originally Posted by shimmy

I think this decision is bad though for the country

We should be encouraging people to further education not showing them it will make them in debt for 20-30 years 9caveat is the courses should be real and 50% of the Universities should be turned back into colleges and day release centres)

i know we all have to make sacrifices in these hard times but true degree students arnt one = i mean imagine if school burdened everybody with a 15 year debt of say £5k a year totalling £75k and you have 3 kids so thats £225k, would you vote for that?

You might say well students choose to go on to further education (not for much longer if they come from a poorer background)

WHAT THIS DOESNT DO is encourage the better students and discourage the not so clever ones, but it does concourage the richer students and discourages the poorer ones.

We will be fooked in a few years to come and our only asset of an educated and useful engineering class will be gone

Nope, wouldnt vote for that - agree that all should have the right to free education until 18..

Not sure of the answer mate.....maybe a better development of a bursary / sponsorship / scholarship model through improved connection of world of industry and the world of education......for sure, fees are a millstone for an individual but could be a cheap way to recruit by locking smart kids into your Firm at 18 (pre-college) by covering this cost for them. You would weep if you knew the cost of putting a Grad through a typical in-house training Programme, particularly in this industry - the suggested fee increases would be reasonably palatable for a professional org if they had a guaranteed pipeline of talent...

Anyway, its my last day of hols, so I think I'll head off to the pub