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Tuition Fees
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I'm a Scottish student wanting to study in England and have an interview for Northumbria University tomorrow.
However, on discovering that tuition fees will be over £3,000 a year I am very doubtful about going. Think I'll stay in Scotland where, according to the papers, people from all the UK are applying to escape these hefty amounts. I think it's disgraceful!
What does everyone else think?
However, on discovering that tuition fees will be over £3,000 a year I am very doubtful about going. Think I'll stay in Scotland where, according to the papers, people from all the UK are applying to escape these hefty amounts. I think it's disgraceful!
What does everyone else think?
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And the damn North Welsh Plyd Cymbri (i think i spelt that wrong) do they not know that full indeperpendance would probably leave them bankrupt to high hell! They get so much money from the rest of the UK, they cant afford to be independant. But damn the English anyway!
Arg, i still miss the place; being back in England, especially essex, is deppresing
Bopz
I think we live in an EU where free market economics are highly important, where people have the right to move, work and learn where they choose and you'd do well to get out of your local area and get a wider perspective of what the world is like and the human experience. The argument you're making, of a national lottery for opportunity would be the same argument that would attempt to justify the rich countries continuing to exploit the developing world who suffer in poverty.
I merely wanted to get accross how silly they are introducing these excessive fees. Imperial College, apparently, are trying to set their yearly fees at £15,000 and I feel this type of arrogance will see a significant reduction in future graduates.
They can't, it's capped at £3,000. I see the additional funding for universities as a necessity, our country's researchers and lecturers are poorly paid compared to their international colleagues and without more money going to them from somewhere they'll move abroad and this country will enter an intellectual depression. If you had very few lecturers at very few universities then you'd have very few courses offered, that'd see a significant reduction in future graduates.
I think finances are a big concern for a lot of people, and it is something that people need to take into account.
Tuition fees at all are a disgrace.
The token scuffers get their fees paid for, but earn over £20,000 and you don't get much help at all. And £20,000 is not a lot of money.
I don't disagree with loans because if you want to live away from home you should pay for it. But they should be enough to live on.
Education based on finances is immoral.
And of course the English tax pounds mean that Scotland can afford to do this in the first place, so not only do we have to pay tuition fee's we indirectly pay the tuition fees of the Scots too, something I deeply object to.
The old level of fee, as in about £1000 a term based on income is not excessive, loans at inflation are totally acceptable but the bulk of the money should come from general taxation.
It has never stopped anyone I know. Still, I don't know everyone in the whole universe.