Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#1
Have to pay £9,000 pa for Uni.
Scotish students have to pay Zero pa.
Welsh students have to pay £3,000 + pa.
Northern Ireland students have to pay £3,000 + pa.
Our Students are not all in this together!!
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#2
If accurate they are incredible figures, how can that be?
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
mainly because that out of the pot for the u.k. england is poor relation share out wise.
Jan Higgins
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#4
The annoying and stupid thing to me is that students from the EU will pay less than English students if I have understood the criteria correctly.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
A by-product of devolution.
The real scandal is the funding of Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland from general taxation. That needs to be sorted so they pay for their decisions in their entirety without English taxpayer subsidy.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#6
Yes, a by-product of devolution...that has saved many from overweening Tory ideologues.
The real pity is that the English taxpayer as voter was and is entirely 'spoiled' for choice of who to vote for.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#7
So the English are paying top rate while subsidising the other UK members so they do not have to
Audere est facere.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#8
So...
The search is on for a replacement forum UKIP rep or maybe EDL?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#9
Its shocking that our English university students have to pay this extortionate fee of £9000. My two daughters are on their 4th year and 2nd year so they wont have to pay the £9000 fee and thank goodness for that. They are both London based so they have to borrow the maximum amout of loans available as the accomodation in London is very expensive. I feel very sorry for the students who have their hearts set on going to uni next year.I know if my daughters were only starting uni next year there is no way on earth they could afford to go.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#10
# 9. Its going to be expensive for students,parents and grand parents. Is this a way to secure UK`s future?
Eldest grandson came with friends to play tennis.All off to different Uni`s.Drinks interval talk was of many things but mainly their excitment for the next four years.One was reading Economics.We talked long before his friends dragged him out for the final set.He had a project paper on the 2008 Global economic crisis.He promised to email me.Just read it.Excellent work.No judgements were made in the study but one sentence was...........Bankers until the Crisis took hold had a ``Laissez fiare`` stance.
In hindsight the Banks should have had stronger regulation.
If we have thousands of these youngters coming through ......................We will be alright if we can afford it.Many will not be able to.What happened to ``Education Education Education?
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#11
Even Ed Ballsup has admitted that, Reg, I watched his crocodile tears on the news this morning.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
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#12
so another scandal
our students wont forget come the next general election
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
University fees of £9k are nothing to an old Etonian who has paid £30k per year previously.
Fees of £9k are crippling to the parents of a state school educated student, Why not means test?
Free for those with ability who are under a certain threshold and fee paying for those above the threshold.
I don't see this as a major stumbling block for any party. Its called 'joined up' thinking.
Sorry I posted this on the wrong thread.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
#14
My son is in his final year at Durham so hasn't had to fall for the raised fees, but my youngest daughter has yet to go as she is in 6th form. She had considered Law at Cambridge (although she seems to be cantering off in a new direction now!) and we would clearly support her whatever she chose, but it has been a challenge even with my sons fees. We wantonly had four children and worked all our lives, contributing to the education and welfare of our fellow Brits - what more can we expect...?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#15
the lib dems will never be forgiven
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#16
Tell me about it - if I ever get a chance I will actively campaign against them, and I am not alone in that.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#17
im sure your not alone
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Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#18
I'm with you there Bern and my girls
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#19
and me collette??? lol
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Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#20
The Open University also has raised its fees, to around three times as much as previously. By its nature, the OU was a university that gave chances to many who could benefit from university level education yet for various reasons couldn't attend a conventional university.
I sincerely hope that these new costs don't unfairly affect people who may be or have been already disadvantaged.