raising top-up fees, what say thee ?

[SpuffMonkey]

Its just wrong! If graduates do so well financially after graduating - they'll be paying more tax back anyway (when I had a "proper" job I paid more in tax each month than I received as a grant per year when I was a student). With the current job outlook - it must be daunting to have £1000s of debt, and little prospect of securing a decent position. If I was 17-18 - I'd be seriously thinking about whether it was worth going to Uni - and thats not a decision that they ought to have to make if they are bright enough to take advantage of the opportunity.

 

In a similar vein - did anyone else see the reviews of the book last week that tied nearly every social ill to the amount of inequality in the society it was being measured in? US at the top of the list (with UK close behind) with large amounts of everything from robbery, abuse, obesity etc following the curve - right at the bottom - Sweden & Japan which apparently have the most equality (ie differential in pay and access to services between richest & poorest). Interesting I thought.