Tuition fee's up again

Lokolo

Inflation people inflation..... Fees have to rise to keep up with it

grimupnorth_2

Just a quick response to the Access to learning Fund comment. Unfortunatly the amount that Universities are given is being reduced year on year as, believe it or not, the amount of hard cash students can access from loans and grants is increasing year on year, (although so is the amount that they are having to repay). I think that as University's increase the amount that they charge for Tuition Fees, the more they will have to fund their 'hardship' funds themselves. I think there will always be these funds available in some form or another, but i think there will a move to only helping students who have suffered 'unforeseen emergencies', rather than people who have a monthly shortfall in income. Basically the advise is to do research before starting University, have a plan, and hope that nothing changes. If you have any opinions ask your Student Finance Advisors if they are member of NASMA (National Association of student Money Advisors), as this organisation lobbys Government and works with the SLC to raise concerns that arise within the sector.

Masomnia

Lokolo wrote: »

Inflation people inflation..... Fees have to rise to keep up with it

Exactly. £3070 to £3145 is an increase of 2.4%, or very close to it. Which was the quoted figure for the year's inflation, the CPI anyway.

I agree that there should be no tuition fees, and education should be free; but an increase due to inflation isn't worth arguing about.

kr15snw

The_One_Who wrote: »

I'm sure the Scottish fees went up by about that amount too. Everything goes up, can't be expected to stay at £3000 for ever. And £3000 is extremely cheap compared to the actual cost, I'd be happy to pay it.

This is something I want to try and work out, is it worth it??

For example:

Our lecturers were in with us 16 hours a week.
We were not allowed to use our room out of this time (it was used by other courses).
There were 20 people on our course.
We are not given anything, and have to pay for printing etc.

So our college recieves an average of £60,000 from our group.

We are in college 34 weeks a year (18 weeks holiday).

So lets see:

£3000 / 34 = £88.24

£88.24 / 16 = £5.51

So we are paying £5.51 an hour to be there.

£5.51 * 20 = £110.29

So the college is recieving £110.29 an hour for us to be there?

I know they have lots to pay out etc etc, but seems rather high seeing as the amount of other things we have to pay...

Oldernotwiser

You can't reduce a university's costs just to its undergraduate teaching time, that's a very narrow view of what universities are about. In the more traditional universities, teaching undergraduates is not necessarily even the most important part of its work. We're not talking primary schools here, you know!