So, what is the answer to the uni fees nightmare?

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FellatioNelson · 10/12/2010 18:10

Any ideas? Obviously we are stuck with the £9k nightmare now, but what are/were the sensible alternatives, given almost 50% of young people are wanting to go?

Also, heard Vince Cable saying that the previous Labour plans were to slash the budget fro university education to the same extent, so where would they have made their savings without doing likewise?

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usualsuspect · 10/12/2010 23:56

Maybe invest more in vocational training? stop thinking that not having a degree makes you a failure?

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FellatioNelson · 10/12/2010 23:46

Well yes, but what about if we want the current numbers to keep on going? Who should pay - and how?

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Booandpops · 10/12/2010 23:16

Go back to polytechnics and save uni for academic courses only, go back to training while on the job where possible, so paying tax from the beginning of training, employers coughing up for some of the training. This did happen 15 yrs ago. It seems to have stopped. Why? Scholarships for bright poor children. uni should be based on ability not money or fear of debt.

My dh did go to uni. I didn't. I had a home by 23Yrs because of this We now have a very small mortgage and no debt. This is how I would like my children to live. Not saddled with debt till thier dying day.

kaiserfootmuff · 10/12/2010 18:13

ds said he's going to go to holland to study where he's going to get the money for that is beyond me

sarah293 · 10/12/2010 18:12

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