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Nor · 27-01-2004, 20:05

If you earned 100k a year and paid 60% of your wage towards your debt surely you'd pay it off in about 6 months max ? Unless your student debt is over 30k that is

I agree with what someone said earlier, if you are doing a degree in a subject which is needed in the UK, doctor, nurse, teacher, then it should be free. If you are doing a degree in david beckham you should be forced to pay it all. If you are doing it in something else its somewhere in between, which it will be when the top up fees are introduced. I'm all for the top up fees but I'm also for a lowering in the target of 50% to goto university. The fact is, there are too many crap universities out there handing out crap degrees which do nobody any good.

At the end of the day, if you want to have a university education you should contribute to the cost of it. You are going to benefit from it so you help to pay towards it. If you don't think you'll benefit from the degree and the debt is too scary to be saddled with, well then the degree isn't worth doing. There is far too much importance placed on doing a degree these days. Most students I know are hardly very diligent when it comes to finances anyway. To expect those who aren't benefiting from tertiary education to pay for it for them when so many p*ss it up against the wall isn't fair.

27-01-2004, 20:05	#41
Nor Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Scotland Age: 51 Posts: 1,028	Re: Top up fees If you earned 100k a year and paid 60% of your wage towards your debt surely you'd pay it off in about 6 months max ? Unless your student debt is over 30k that is I agree with what someone said earlier, if you are doing a degree in a subject which is needed in the UK, doctor, nurse, teacher, then it should be free. If you are doing a degree in david beckham you should be forced to pay it all. If you are doing it in something else its somewhere in between, which it will be when the top up fees are introduced. I'm all for the top up fees but I'm also for a lowering in the target of 50% to goto university. The fact is, there are too many crap universities out there handing out crap degrees which do nobody any good. At the end of the day, if you want to have a university education you should contribute to the cost of it. You are going to benefit from it so you help to pay towards it. If you don't think you'll benefit from the degree and the debt is too scary to be saddled with, well then the degree isn't worth doing. There is far too much importance placed on doing a degree these days. Most students I know are hardly very diligent when it comes to finances anyway. To expect those who aren't benefiting from tertiary education to pay for it for them when so many p*ss it up against the wall isn't fair.