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Welsh students who went to welsh universities used to get their fees paid for them, or most of it, thats stopped now, as has the grants they used to get if they went to English universities, the welsh assembley didnt like seeing their money go across the border!!!!! xx
 
Whilst the fees were astronomical in the first place, I really do hope that them being topped up filters out the no-marks that go to uni and disrupt classes/piss about just because they can't find anything else to do. (Plenty at Edge Hill, that's for sure).

Thank God I graduated in July, though.
 
Summerskin said:
Whilst the fees were astronomical in the first place, I really do hope that them being topped up filters out the no-marks that go to uni and disrupt classes/piss about just because they can't find anything else to do. (Plenty at Edge Hill, that's for sure).

Thank God I graduated in July, though.
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Do you mean the poor and lower classes by this?
 

It's pretty outrageous, but won't change too much. If you are bright and want to go to Uni you'll either get a scholarship or pay back the fees on a monthly basis when you've graduated and are in employment.

Shocked at Scotland still getting free tuition fees though, to be honest.
 
Summerskin said:
Whilst the fees were astronomical in the first place, I really do hope that them being topped up filters out the no-marks that go to uni and disrupt classes/piss about just because they can't find anything else to do. (Plenty at Edge Hill, that's for sure).

Thank God I graduated in July, though.
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And it will also filter out ALOT of the brightest working class. I'm at Leeds and there's plenty of posh southern *****, many of whom piss about and don't care, they just scrape through. Can't help but feel Universities are going to be full of them.

heatmeiser said:
It's pretty outrageous, but won't change too much. If you are bright and want to go to Uni you'll either get a scholarship or pay back the fees on a monthly basis when you've graduated and are in employment.

Shocked at Scotland still getting free tuition fees though, to be honest.
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In an ideal world yes, but how many companies are there that are going to give scholarships, and on such a large scale?
 
The Bishop said:
And it will also filter out ALOT of the brightest working class. I'm at Leeds and there's plenty of posh southern *****, many of whom piss about and don't care, they just scrape through. Can't help but feel Universities are going to be full of them.



In an ideal world yes, but how many companies are there that are going to give scholarships, and on such a large scale?
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super post mate!
 
At the other end of the spectrum you have professors getting paid crazy amounts of money despite shoving most of their workload onto PhD students desperate to make an impression. I know where I'd be cutting costs.

Come to think of it, it's pretty much a similar scenario to current match ticket prices, wages at the top go up and up, and the extra cash has to come from the bottom. My department offers one masters fee-waiver per year (value 5000 euros), while the head of the department makes that amount of money in his 4-day working week.
 
Caroline Lucas, Green Party leader - "Today is a dark day for the students of the future – and for Lib Dem voters who have seen a shameful u-turn on a key election pledge. The Greens are now the only main political party that support free education for all. A cap of £9,000 is simply unacceptable. Many people will be priced out of going to university."

“A more progressive policy to fund higher education would be a business education tax, on the top 4% of UK companies, which would generate enough annually to abolish tuition fees and take our public investment in higher education up to the average in other comparable countries."
 

hang on, i dont' know anyone that was fortunate enough to go to uni anyway, this is a very clever ploy to ensure the rich kids who IDB ( in daddies business) are cleaned out before they start.

i know some have worked hard at a PT job to fund the uni troubles, but most of them are paid for by mother and dadddy.
 
I see a common trend emerging from the Tories'Lib sellout coalition. Take a sh*t "new labour" idea and make it far. far worse.
 
No cuts here though: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11685442

Breathtaking hypocrisy from Cameron. Cutbacks and job losses everywhere, but he hands two civil service posts to two flunky photographers previously employed by the Tory Party...just to follow him around snapping him being 'statesmanlike'.

You can take the boy out of the Bullingdon Club, but.....
 
BlueLlama said:
I see a common trend emerging from the Tories'Lib sellout coalition. Take a sh*t "new labour" idea and make it far. far worse.
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All the bulldozers in all the world and in every parallel universe cannot pile the amount of +Rep you deserve for pointing out exactly who it was that introduced "EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION + tuition fees".

The undercover political propagandists should take note, not everyone has as short a memory as they would like to think.
 

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