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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
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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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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I saved for mine but not intentionally..I was saving to ensure that she would have a deposit on a house when the time came but they changed the grants system and it all went on contributions..which were at least capped.
Now at 58 I have no more money to provide the deposit and she has (despite having a 2.1 English degree) to train as a dispensing optician for another 3 years.She is still paying off her loan but very slowly because she still isn't earning nearly enough to do so..
At 27 she is finding that having and obtaining a degree wasn't the sinecure that it was held out to be..