UK Tuition / Top-Up fees

[Jacob]

Tuition and Top-up fees may discourage many potential students from a low-income background from starting a degree. Some students are forced to take up jobs to get throught their degree, which means less time to study = poorer grades.

As I am in high school, and haven't been through uni and debt, I was wondering if any students in debt could get into debt with as much as £33,000?

Thanks

>>Jacob

[which doctor]

I don't know about England, but across the wide sea in the states the cost is very high. If it wasn't for my brother's scholarship, it would cost my family about $35,000 a year to send him there. Even state U can be too expensive for many people. It does discourage many people from attending college. Costs are way to high and the only the thing the government is doing about it is raising tuition costs every year. I would like to see a student's strike where they just refused to attend classes. That might give them a wake up call.

[Jacob]

so it is high in the staes too?

it seems to me that the government [in the Uk] seems to think that going into further education [minus college, thats ages 16/17-18], going into furhter education seems to be the ability to pay and not learn. Such education is possible for the rich, but not for a person from a low-income backgroubd. No one should be deterred from the chance of having a university education because of fear of debt.

Though, the question still stans for me in the UK, could anyone get into debt with as much as £33,000 when finished Uni?

[bunk]

I think it's possible if a lower income went to oxford or cambridge who are gonna top-up the most i think

[Donnie]

As I am in high school, and haven't been through uni and debt, I was wondering if any students in debt could get into debt with as much as £33,000?
I'll be coming out with about £10-14,000 in debt.

I've already spent my student loan which was given to me in September and I'm now living off my overdraft till January 3 when my new Loan comes in.

[Noah]

If you were studying medicine and then went on to specialise...you'll be left with some hefty debt and yet you are paying to become someone who will save lifes...sounds absurd to me.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2005, 12:19 PM
If you were studying medicine and then went on to specialise...you'll be left with some hefty debt and yet you are paying to become someone who will save lifes...sounds absurd to me.
or if course you went to med school in cuba and you could get your education for free.

[Jacob]

So...

would anyone agree that UK Tuition and top-up fees should be abolished?

[Noah]

Indeed it should!

[Jacob]

Thanks Noah! [now this is a one off, i'll keep learning in learning and chat in chat from now on] Miranda wants to tell you she has split red pants :P .

Back to the abolishment of tuition/top -up fees, does anyone think they should be banned? If so, how will the Universities pay for themselves? Would they become like state Universities?

[Comrade Yastrebkov]

Of course they should! There's nothing to discuss! In the USSR or now in Cuba there are more doctors than in the US or Britain (in relation to the population size), more hospital beds per patient and more nurses per patient. After the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine Cuba invited more children to be treated free of charge than any other western country. And this is after decades of embargo.