Manchester University to charge 9 grand a year.

[Bill]

I don't pretend to know the workings of the system it's been a while since my kids were at uni but if we could keep this thread civil as it seems there is much to debate.
Cheers.

 

[OxBlue]

While this will hinder students from a wprking class background, it will not stop these who are determined and more importantly want to study a "real" subject.

I didn't pay tuition fee's and had a full grant as both parents unemployed, but that meant I got £2800 per year grant and my rent alone was £2750 per year.

So

Summer before you go, get a job, job market tough, go to an employemnt agency and work for minimum wage doing anything,onceyou're at Uni get evening or part-time work and work through the holidays.

During my time at Uni, I worked as a bin-man, doorman, barman, tele-marketer, data entry all sorts of crap and came out in debt, but have been reaping the rewards since.

Working class kids can go, it's just harder and there's plenty that do it.

You an Oxford Blue, Oxblue? Rowing, cricket, rugger? What college did yer go to?

Not quite, OxBlue was the only name I could get when I joined , I used to be Oxford Blue on BlueView as I lived in Oxford and was a Blue...

as for college, Oxford Brookes Uni, I wasn't that smart or well connected (;-)

 

[tueartsboots]

Leeds Met to charge £8,500, what a fucking joke

 

[Halfpenny]

Leeds Met to charge £8,500, what a fucking joke

For what?!

 

[tueartsboots]

Leeds Met to charge £8,500, what a fucking joke

For what?!

Per year to study.

 

[Halfpenny]

For what?!

Per year to study.

Yeah, I gathered that. :P

 

[GStar]

Personally, i think it's a good thing.

Take a look at the US system, then be thankful it's tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands if we're comparing like for like top tier institutions.

You'll get a loan, you'll pay it back drip by drip; it'll be like NI you won't even notice it coming out of your wage.

Plus, it might stop a lot of people who seemingly only go for the "life experience" and do David Beckham studies, i can't see how the 50% graduates would ever work as we're currently around 40% i think and degree's aren't worth the paper they're written on currently.

 

[ifwecouldjust......]

If you want to go university and get the benefits that come with that, then surely you should pay?

You do pay....................

In the form of Income tax for the rest of your working days.

Leaving with a relevant , decent qualification normally means that you command a higher salary and hence pay more in income tax

simples*

except those that have already benefited from Private Education (Labour / Con and Lib Dem) and then on to state subsidised UNI don't see it as that (cos they just don't live our lives)

In a few years time a UNI eductation will only be available for the rich and wealthy and the gap between the TOFFS and Working classes will just get wider and wider. Social Mobility will be finished and the upper classes will have a nice uneducated workforce that they can bleed to death, whilst they live behind their gated communities...........


LIARS THIEVES AND CHEATS THE LOT OF THEM

 

[whitt]

Leeds Met to charge £8,500, what a fucking joke

Ha ha! Unbeleivable. They were ripping me off by charging £2000!

 

[brooklandsblue2.0]

Leeds Met to charge £8,500, what a fucking joke

Ha ha! Unbeleivable. They were ripping me off by charging £2000!

To be fair, if you are going to any 'met' you are clearly not academic, you'd be much better finding a nice call center now and not getting in debt.....seriously.