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If we analyse the various necessities behind the stances respectively of the Government and the students who are protesting - as well as those who haven't protested but might still not be in favour of tuition fee rises, I would say that the enormous national debt of about 900 billion pounds, and the fact that it is ever-increasing, plays an important role in Gov's decision to raise the tuition fees.
It is a fact that tutition costs at universities are about three to four times higher than the hitherto flat-rate fees (over 1000 pounds) and arguably higher than the capped fee of annually 3000 pounds.
So the universities need more funding to continue teaching, and the Treasury has not got the money to dish out student loans to all and sundry from every EU country, which by EU law they have had to do, as EU students can not pay more than British students. So by increasing the total per annum fee to correspond to that what a university year usally costs in real terms (about 9,000 pounds on average), Gov. is being realistic, because the non-British EU students must then pay the same!
However, let us not forget that this is the maximum cap a university can charge for British and EU students, and so, many universities will in fact be charging less than 9,000 pounds a year.
There is also the provision that universities that will be charging over £6000 per annum must give some kind of bursary for at least a certain number of poorer students.
We should also consider that about 57,000 Indian students attended British universities in 2010, plus many from Pakistan, and an even higher number from China. These, and all other non-EU students are charged according to the international non-EU rates of each university, on average about 9-14,000 pounds a year, so they evidently do cover at their own expense the costs for their education, which is fair enough.
But Gov. is introducing measures to ensure that under degree students and also graduates cannot just get a job and stay here while studying or after completing their course, or simply get a job in Britain and not studay at all. Minister Graham Green has said that this sort of abuse must stop and that once the sudents have completed their course they must go home.
As the Land of Hope and Glory, we must know how to afford our expenses, and limits have to be made known, as ours is a limited Land, and we have been going over our means and possibilities and have been far too generous to so many, and got ourselves into great debt because of it.
Perhaps many students are too young to realise this, and too innocent, and I understand this. I do believe in the rights to affordable education, but we have to consider how much is in our collective purse in the Treasury.