Proud of our dcs for voting

[Dunlurking]

Did you get the vibes that something would happen with the student votes? I'm so proud that our dcs engaged, went and voted, and can see direct results. Ds told me about his facebook feed going mad with his Labour friends posting things. It's only now I realise the significance of that action. Whatever we voted ourselves, we surely must be pleased that this generation has woken up to the importance of engaging in democracy. Ds was frustrated as his half of the Warwick Uni campus was safe Conservative (the other half is South Coventry and was Labour already), but all the students renting in Leamington took down the Conservative MP there. And as for Canterbury. Amazing.

University places aren't limited.

They will be if they become free. The government simply cannot fund unlimited free places.

The government simply cannot fund unlimited free places.

Why not? Other countries in Europe do.

BTW in most other countries university tuition is already free. It's not like we would be flooded with millions more students just by changing our tuition fees. UK students could currently go to many world leading universities in Europe for free or almost free tuition. They choose not to do so.

Tuition isn't free in most countries in Europe. It is in some. I would imagine more students would want to come to the UK and study in English though than want to study in Finland. In Finnish.

It is free or almost free in most European countries. Even countries such as Holland only charge a couple of thousand.

The world ranking of universities shows 5 UK universities in the top 25 and 1 non-UK European university so I imagine that even though fees may be low or non-existant in parts of Europe students will continue to be attracted to top-name UK universities.

I have a family member who is at university in France for which I don't think he has paid/paid very little and the class sizes are huge and there is minimal support for students with the result that many don't complete the course which doesn't seem an ideal system.

'non-existent' - sorry!

Goodbyestranger - If you excluded non-practising Jews from the definition, organizations such as Jews for Justice for Palestinians would collapse. I agree it's a nice thought, but sadly they probably have to be included.....