Damocles said:
This is severe nonsense.
Students will be easily in over £30k of debt. Student loan of £4k per year, fees of £8k. This is for 1 year, most degrees are 3-5 years. I hope you aren't on a Maths course.
Besides, the idea that University should separate the best and the brightest is grotesque. University should be for anybody who wants to go. Education is the solution to nearly every single problem in the world. We have survived as a species because of our willingness to share information throughout the generations; to disregard this now would be tragic.
There are things that you use in your everyday life that you have to thanks scholars from 5000 years ago for. If they had the same idea that knowledge and title is only for a few, then we'd still be building mud huts and praying to the Sun
EDIT: You need to severely increase your logic skills if you are going into Law. You should start reading up on logical fallacies and think about how they fit into people's arguments. This is actually a good place to look as we have a range of people, with a range of different debating skills, with a range of different opinions.
what the balls!? a student pays 9% of what they earn OVER £15,000, so if a graduate gets of a job paying £20,000, they have to pay 9% of £5,000 that's £450...PER YEAR! typical student loan is £3200 per year. 86% of uni courses are 3 years full time, 5 years would be part time on the same loan amount anyway. 3200 x 3 = 9600, tuition fees of £3220 per year at the university of manchester, x 3 = 9660. a grand total for me - £19260. NOT £30,000! if i then get a job totalling £30,000 a year, i'd pay back £112 a month. if my monthly salary falls below £1200 a month...i pay nothing. After all this, i then have the pride in obtaining a degree, which is worth more than any amount of money (the original point of my earlier post) how and why should i be worried about student debt and what was your point in replying to my post? and you agree with uk students with hard working parents having to pay for tuition and miss places in uni in favour for foreign students who pay nothing into society after receiving exceptional education? If we were living by your way of thinking, everybody would be sucking of the same tit....and that isn't healthy is it.