Facts on Fees website

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Created by the Conservatives: www.factsonfees.com/

I haven't been following these student fee threads closely, so I apologise if this has been linked somewehere already. I've just been sent it.

It's interesting reading, can't decide what I think of it all, thought I'd leave the mumsnet jury to decide

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Well it's about time they tried to make their case.

Their communication so far has been pants. Anyone would think they wanted to see the middle classes protesting on the streets .

Hmm, seems to be a lot of straw man arguments gussied up as myths, while wholely avoiding the fact that, whether or not you pay fees up front or start paying off your fees later, you still are expected to pay three times as much per year.

It does not take a flashy website to tell me that £27,000 is a hell of a lot more to pay for a degree than £9,000.

Slug so true

"graduates (you know the ones who worked hard at school and got really good grades to go to uni) (and then had 3 years of working hard for NO MONEY) will earn (only) £100,000 extra over their entire life, (on average - some will some wont)
So we will get that off them, ha! thatll learn them for bein clever init.

slug yes it is a bunch of myths and half truths.. but then they are conservatives.

It will be much more than £27000 because there are also living costs around £15,000 and rising, plus interest.

Not to mention the fact that students will get nothing extra for three times the fees, because the full 9K is needed just to cover the govt's removal of all funding from most degrees.

I agree with the principle of students contributing something towards their degrees. But the public and employers benefit too, and should share the cost.