Just want to clarify something.
Of course, re student debt, middle class savvy parents will do the sums and financially plan accordingly.
My concern is and I clearly should have made it more obvious, is the wider economic damage .
In simplistic terms: the money funding these hundreds of billions of loans has come from somewhere and will need to be repaid somehow and at some time.
Most of it will not be paid by the debtors as (the majority?) will never have the capacity to repay, or even to begin to repay.
Because it should never have been suggested to them that university should be their goal in the first place. Equal to the Iraq war, I think this was Blair's worst mistake.
It is true that this is not their personal problem, but it will be ours, collectively as a society.
This is surely a massive boulder, gathering speed and weight, as it careers down the mountain in ten, 15, 20 years' time.
That is aside from the separate issue of the whole strategy being wrong headed in the first place.
We all have different skills and strengths. I can barely change a light bulb ( not proud) and am terrified when batteries give out on my older devices as I can't ever recall the way they are supposed to go and it never works - but I also have a responsible professional job.
I rely on a small band of highly skilled people to fix my roof, my gutters, my boiler, my kitchen tap, my plastering, my computer, my rotten decking.... and so on.
We need more people like that.