More Coalition U-Turns

Jonbvn

Main article in the Torygraph this morning.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8057885/Lord-Browne-review-cost-of-university-tuition-will-hit-36000.html

IMHO, I think the present situation with 40% (someone correct me on this number) of children going on to Uni is just not sustainable. Something has to be done to either reduce the numbers, or make it cost effective.

Would you pay fifty grand for a degree in modern dance or meeja studies?

Degenerate

antrobus wrote: »

Somewhat ironically, given that the subject is tuition fees, before the 1997 General Election a certain Tony Blair announced that "Labour has no plans to introduce tuition fees for higher education" followed by the introduction of said tuition fees once he was safely in power.

Blair was a cunning sort who chose his words carefully. Saying you have "no plans" to do something is very different to setting out your stall in vehement opposition to it, like the Lib Dems did.

Hauptmann

Jonbvn wrote: »

Would you pay fifty grand for a degree in modern dance or meeja studies?

No I wouldn't, but then..

(a) A degree in modern dance probably costs a lot less than £50k to deliver, and,
(b) The number of students taking dance or media studies is actually a very small percentage of the overall student population.

I suspect most students are studying pretty useful subjects. We certainly seem to be short of graduates in a number of areas (maths, engineering, science) and overall, our output of graduates is still lower than most advanced countries.

drc

This is so silly. All that will happen is that universities will lose a lot of money as very few people will be able to afford these sums. People will opt to send their kids to universities in Europe which are cheaper and better and the universities in the UK will decline in standards because they will have run out of money. The UK will lose a lot of gifted students who will end up working elsewhere. Very shortsighted but I guess this is the legacy that Labour left us with :mad:.