17th December 2010, 10:33 AM
deadlylampshade Wrote: or the fact that potential students will be forced to use their own money (or rather their parents') to waste their time doing irrelevant degrees?
As someone has already pointed out the repayment terms are not going to apply to archaeology students due to the pittance they earn...I would have thought it was a reason to support it!
oh good lord. it strikes me that people have forgotten that students do already pay for their education. This isnt about introducing university fees, its about INCREASING them. I graduated 3 years ago with 10 grands worth of debt, my debt not my parents, from loans to pay for the course and maintenance loans to keep me alive. I worked during those 3 years, and apart from a spell of 3 months when the recession hit have been working ever since. I now owe the student loans people more like 12 grand due to interest as my archaeology wage has paid off ?2 a week (which doesn't cover interest) .
You're right, with archaeology wages we will never be able to pay it all back. So students will have an ever increasing debt of upwards of 30 grand hanging over their heads untill theyre 50??? i don't understand how that is ok. It is a measure being introduced by people who had a free education, grants and the like, who have since forced a world recession, and who now expect new students to pay for it (along with the rest of us volunteering to run everything else)
AND! the whole protest thing. its about bloody TIME people started making a point about what they think/believe in etc in this country again. kinda sick of hearing that the French do it better :p people shouldnt be distracted by the violence of a few over what is quite a heartfelt outpouring for us 'stif upper lip' brits....