University Fees

[MissAlice]

I don't think it's right for parents to pay for us to go to University, they've paid their taxes. It's one thing having to find the money for costs to live away from home, but surely education should be free for everyone in the UK, and if you are forced to take out a loan for each year, just for tuition fees, you will have a nice debt at the end that will need repaying, once you are earning more than £15,000 a year.

Wales I hear is now trying to obtain free tuition fees for University students!

[partie2]

By the time I finish uni im going to have a debt of around £10,000 and the government wanders why so many people in the UK are in so much debt!

[MissAlice]

By the time I finish uni im going to have a debt of around £10,000 and the government wanders why so many people in the UK are in so much debt!

Isn't life great, we are encouraged to get in debt, which is something my parents have taught me not to! I've been taught to live within my means.

[RedStratocas]

the thing about it is if the government were to provide free college enrollment, people would have to pay more taxes. so really, you'd be paying for it either way. but i'm a huge supporter of education. i think it's ridiculous that here in the united states, we spend five times as much on the military than we do on education of all levels. in the beginning of this year, our school ran out of tissues because of lack of funding. it's ridiculous. if we spent what we did on the iraq war on college tuition (not even including liability) we'd be able to send about half of a underclassmen year to college for free.

[360]

Whoever said that our Health care is better than Englands is wrong... they are the same if not ours worse.

I think the University fees thing is stupid, all universies across the UK should be free, although it will mean a rise in tax for everyone, but i'm sure the Scottish Parliament made the decision to scrap uni fees as we are semi-independant and for the rest of the UK to get it it would need to go through the house of commons (?)

[Abbie.]

ive sent away for a ucas card


ive decided im going to uni in 2009, and im going to scotland to do a teaching course as in northern ireland, its hard to get into stranmillis without A's at a-level

will i have to pay? :S

[Ramones]

does anyone know the rules on moving to a scottish university from a england, wales or n.ireland? do you have to have lived there so long etc?

[partie2]

the thing about it is if the government were to provide free college enrollment, people would have to pay more taxes. so really, you'd be paying for it either way. but i'm a huge supporter of education. i think it's ridiculous that here in the united states, we spend five times as much on the military than we do on education of all levels. in the beginning of this year, our school ran out of tissues because of lack of funding. it's ridiculous. if we spent what we did on the iraq war on college tuition (not even including liability) we'd be able to send about half of a underclassmen year to college for free.

If the government wanted to spread the fee for uni into taxes and sort out funding for it in other ways it wouldnt make to much of an impact onto peoples taxes. The goverment I dont think will do this for a while though if they do it at all because they dont want to rock the boat as there is bound to be people who disagree with it.

[Frodo13.]

ive sent away for a ucas card


ive decided im going to uni in 2009, and im going to scotland to do a teaching course as in northern ireland, its hard to get into stranmillis without A's at a-level

will i have to pay? :S

Yes you will. Only Scotish people don't have to pay at a Scotish uni.

[Moh]

Thank god for student loans.
So what's all this £3,000+ going to? Apart from governments back pockets?