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Originally Posted by Masque
You obviously do not have a clue or live in the real world, as this will prevent many excellent students from lower income families going onto university because the thought of having such a huge bill to pay at the end will put them off and the country will be the losers as the we then have no top class scholars going out into the workplace.
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Neither are you if you think that having fees as they are now is giving us many excellent students and top class scholars going out into the workplace. Our skills gap is massive and the increased participation in Higher Education has done precisely nothing to close it.
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
If a middle of the road middle class family having two or more children wanting to go to university are going to find themselves stretched just to find the contributions that they are expect to pay towards tuition fees, then it may well come to the point that some will be having to choose which of those 2 or3 can actually go to university.
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Could of course save for them, as I have been for my daughter for some time having fully expected to receive nothing from the state for her to be educated beyond FE.
It's what happens in Canada, the USA, and other places that aren't educational backwaters. If we want to make participation as wide as it is there something has to give, no?
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
We need graduates to teach our children but this system is going to make a lot of bright youngsters discount it as a choice of profession.
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I'd suggest that the low pay and other reasons make bright youngsters discount it as a choice of profession. Anyone who goes into teaching looking at it from the financial side is probably barking up the wrong tree
