YES to the rise in Tuition fees!
“No person shall be denied the right to education” The Human Rights Act 1998; A fundamental law necessary for the advancement of our modern society; a law which has not been broken with the coalition’s decision to raise tuition fees. In fact, the increase in fees are necessary to protect our higher education institutions, if our universities and important research institutions are to continue to be awarded world class awards and recognition. They need to be able to raise the funds necessary to survive government cuts, retain commercial influence and most importantly, they need to be able to deliver a high quality education.
The maximum £9000 a university can charge will only be allowed with the exception that those institutions charging £6000 or above are forced to widen access for the poor and disadvantaged; they will also have to offer financial assistance to those students. Yes students will be in debt if and when they receive their degrees but they will not be burdened by this debt, students will only have to repay their debts when they earn above £21,000, a wage indicative of the success of their studies.
The individuals who are not as successful in their professional careers, will be written off if they do not meet this salary after 30 years of them gaining their degrees. Isn’t an annual wage of £120,000 worth the £45,000 tuition fee for doctors and dentists; a fee that is subsidised by the tax payer? Or for those in financial services paying £18,000 in fees and earning wages higher than the prime minister. If a person doesn’t think they will be able to gain a job or earn a good wage after they have gained their qualifications, then perhaps that person shouldn’t go to university, and perhaps the person shouldn’t waste their time; they shouldn’t waste tax payers money and steal that place from someone who has the ability to succeed in their chosen fields.
Although the country benefits from students who gain higher qualifications, in the form of services creating a more dynamic and stable economy, the country only benefits from successful students; the tax payers don’t need students who have achieved a low class in law, media and event management and then be slapped in the face with the bill for these unsuccessful students. I support the tuition fee increase, for the same reason I wouldn’t go into a shop, demand to pay a lower price for a product, have the tax payers cover most of it and then complain I am still paying too much for that product.
Maydul Islam
- Equal opportunities?
such tuition fee increases just creates a greater bridge between social classes, i.e. the rich and the poor.
The rich will enter the university system, those with little financial backing will struggle to cope with a debt that will hang over their heads for most of the rest of their lives.
Hey, maybe if we didn’t invest so much money in wars and funding Israeli genocide ideals then we wouldn’t have to hike tuition fees.
The MP’s deciding on the raises, came from a time when university education was free. Now they ask the next generation to pay such fees. Why don’t they just put the approximate 3bn into education and scrap fees altogether rather than wasting it elsewhere.
Nick Clegg just before he became the deputy prime minister he asked for an arms embargo on Isreal, but within the last two weeks he claims ‘maybe he was wrong about Israel’. Its not just the tuition fees, this is hypocrisy. This is western politics.
So they’re cutting EMA and education spending, they’re even cutting police. Look at the number of police that turned up to the student protests, the people are clearly not happy. Its time for change. United we stand, divided we fall.
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson.
There’s a number of issues with this article:
1) Talk of “high quality” is empty- despite increasing tuition fees over the last decade, standards have still not improved, and are unlikely to do so with a further rise.
2) All this talk of universities having to partake in a widening access agenda if they raise fees above £6,000…. as publicly-funded institutions, shouldn’t universities be partaking in widening access anyway? (And by the way, if the Government was so serious about widening access, it pure hypocrisy to scrap Aimhigher.)
3) “If a person doesn’t think they will be able to gain a job or earn a good wage after they have gained their qualifications, then perhaps that person shouldn’t go to university” ==> No one KNOWS they’ll get a job after graduating- perhaps all of us should therefore drop out?
4) “the country only benefits from successful students” ==> Firstly, what’s a “successful student”? Secondly, were Bill Gates, Michael Dell or Steve Jobs “successful students”? (No, they all dropped out of university!)
5) The analogy at the end makes a massive contradiction. A university education is called a “product”, but at the very start of the article it’s called a “human right”!
The poor will be offered grants and maintanence to help with studies and loans, which wont have to be paid right away except when they are earning more money than if they didnt go to university. There is nothing wrong with being rich if there are poor people and talking about the rich/poor gap is superficial especially when there are poorer people in the world. I didnt vote for the LIb-Dems, what they decide to do, they have to answer to their voters and as for the Conservatives I have no doubt their voters support the cuts. The question of Isreal has nothing to do with this debate, and thank god for western politics because I support a nation that is free and safe unlike the east, they are why you can write on this website. Even if you double the police force it wouldnt stop me from getting burgled, what the police force need is to cut red tape and paper work. These are my educated opinions not policy. Protests dont do anything if you want change make sure you can afford it, money talks in this world.
Can I just ask, do you actually acknowledge that there is a reason other than money, money, MONEY that education is valuable to society? I mean, I do. Just wondered if you did?
I wouldn’t walk into a shop, realise the price has gone up 300%, pay for it, then realise actually 80% of my chocolate bar has been taken away. Facile analogy? I know, it isn’t mine.
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That is all.
Yeah that bloody east. Full of brown people. Thank god for the western nation that you reference. Savages elsewhere!
The police need to cut through the red tape and just shoot people. Damn right!
Thank god it’s not policy.
(can the censors please allow this through, it needs to be said to highlight the immense ignorance and terrible bigotry of the author of this ‘article’- thanks)