Tuition fees

[Halfpenny]

I'm expecting the anti-student brigade to rear its head again here but what the hell...

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Looking like they're going to more than double to £7k according to the BBC, though the Times has said £12k. This is an absolute shambles, it's going to bring the top universities back to the elite and reduce opportunities for the less well off to go on to get degrees. I'm going to uni next academic year; this could mean I leave with over £40,000 of debt, which is absolutely ridiculous.

I'm hoping lib dems with a backbone vote against it and cause a major split in the coalition. Collective responsibility prevents LD cabinet members from voting against it unless they resign their positions in the cabinet, and I can't see them doing that. So we're going to see yet another backtrack on this issue.

Thoughts?

 

[law74]

SHOCK GASP HORROR
Tories look after the wealthy

 

[Skashion]

Will the maintenance grant go up with it?

 

[Nervous Nedum]

what a joke, its already difficult enough to pay for university. this is gona make it almost impossible for many people, including myself, to go to university next year.

 

[Halfpenny]

Will the maintenance grant go up with it?

Somehow I doubt it.

 

[without a dream]

If the Lib Dems have any backbone they'll vote against, a lot of them signed agreements that they would try and abolish tuition fees altogether didn't they?

 

[Skashion]

Will the maintenance grant go up with it?

Somehow I doubt it.

Thought the tories were all about improving social mobility...

 

[Halfpenny]

If the Lib Dems have any backbone they'll vote against, a lot of them signed agreements that they would try and abolish tuition fees altogether didn't they?

Problem is that senior Lib Dems (Clegg, Cable et al) are bound by collective ministerial responsibility, meaning they must back government policy or resign from the cabinet.

 

[without a dream]

If the Lib Dems have any backbone they'll vote against, a lot of them signed agreements that they would try and abolish tuition fees altogether didn't they?

Problem is that senior Lib Dems (Clegg, Cable et al) are bound by collective ministerial responsibility, meaning they must back government policy or resign from the cabinet.

I don't think Cable would care... I get the impression he's not too enamoured with the coalition anyway. Assuming 'other' and Labour vote against 37 need to be persuaded to vote against, this could result in some nasty PR anyway and wreck Lib Dem reputations.

 

[bluemoon32]

Less people should be going to university, it was never meant that pretty much everyone would go & unfortunately it has devalued the achievement of being a graduate in many cases.
Making the costs prohibitive to all but the well off is certainly not the way to solve this problem though.
My eldest Daughter will be off to university next year & my youngest Daughter two years after that, fcuk, i need to win the lottery or sell the Wife...........better stick with the lottery.