Rayleigh boy
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good news for the young uns who have worked hard at school -
afterall Eton is only 13k a term -
Cheers Dave -
afterall Eton is only 13k a term -
Cheers Dave -
A university education is worth far more than 7k per year if used correctly - this should sort the wasters from those who will truly benefit.
Indeed.
IMO, this is a far fairer alternative to the graduate tax that would've forced those who studied something meaningful to subsidise those who studied David Beckham for three years.
What do you define as meaningful?
David Cameron has a degree in PPE which isn't something I would wan't to be looking for a job with at the moment.
What do you define as meaningful?
David Cameron has a degree in PPE which isn't something I would wan't to be looking for a job with at the moment.
What do you define as meaningful?
David Cameron has a degree in PPE which isn't something I would wan't to be looking for a job with at the moment.
Well it hasn't done me any harm. If I'd obtained the degree from some cesspit poly, it might be less well respected however.
Which as educationists have already pointed out will deprive the nation of intelligence and future growth . Money never equals genii . A good education will only make the most of what a person already is.Exactly. The establishment from which you obtain your degree has a massive impact.
And when Oxford and Cambridge start bumping their prices through the roof they become less accessible to the offspring of the less well off.
A university education is worth far more than 7k per year if used correctly - this should sort the wasters from those who will truly benefit.
And Barnablue - don't even start about the poor asylum-seeking benefit claimants with bad backs - they can get student loans and repay it with their increased earnings post qualification.
MC,
Sorry to disappoint but I'm more interested in people coming from a working class background like myself and my two brothers who all went on to achieve degrees(the first in our extended family) in an era when Higher Education was effectively free at source for the recipients.Hypothetical, I know, but I doubt if any of us would have wanted to saddle ourself with student loans/debt even the brother who went to Cambridge to study Economics and is now an Investment Banker.
If you wouldn't have wanted to saddle yourself with debt, then you obviously wouldn't have had much faith that you could turn your education and qualifications into hard cash in the employment marketplace. Hence, there would have been little point in going in the first place. I went to University when student loans were first being introduced, and had repaid them within three years of going to work. I have no sympathy with the whining ninnies who take 'Left-Wing Horse**** Studies' at some fourth rate polytechnic and then struggle to pay back all the money they spent on fourth rate hashish because they're incapable of getting a real job. Man up ladies.
FYI, I paid for half of the costs for my(part-time) MA at the IE, UCL round about the time you were doing your degree.My(then) employers paid the rest. But by 1991 as a mature adult I wasn't saddling myself with debt and I knew pretty much what an MA in TESOL was worth in the marketplace(which incidentally is NOT the reason I did it anyway).
At 18(or 19 in my case after a year on the buses with Eastern National)all I knew was that I preferred to do a degree rather than take up the place I'd been offered at Weymouth Teacher Training College.
But by 1991 as a mature adult I wasn't saddling myself with debt and I knew pretty much what an MA in TESOL was worth in the marketplace(which incidentally is NOT the reason I did it anyway).
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Well it hasn't done me any harm. If I'd obtained the degree from some cesspit poly, it might be less well respected however.
A university education is worth far more than 7k per year if used correctly - this should sort the wasters from those who will truly benefit.
And Barnablue - don't even start about the poor asylum-seeking benefit claimants with bad backs - they can get student loans and repay it with their increased earnings post qualification.
If you wouldn't have wanted to saddle yourself with debt, then you obviously wouldn't have had much faith that you could turn your education and qualifications into hard cash in the employment marketplace. Hence, there would have been little point in going in the first place. I went to University when student loans were first being introduced, and had repaid them within three years of going to work. I have no sympathy with the whining ninnies who take 'Left-Wing Horse**** Studies' at some fourth rate polytechnic and then struggle to pay back all the money they spent on fourth rate hashish because they're incapable of getting a real job. Man up ladies.
So what happens if you are (for example) a brilliant physicist that wants to devote their life to research?