Students Kicking OFF
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I've not really seen too much UK news on the subject so it's difficult to see what the pundit /discussion angle is.
It's a tough argument. I only paid £3K in TOTAL for my tuition. I got a loan for £9K for living costs and that was it really. So i was lucky.
Increased tuition fees, in a way it would be a positive move. When I was at university there were a multitude of people there simply for the good time, inspired by Hollyoaks and the consensus that you MUST to go to university for the 'life experience', and the 'education is only a small part of the experience'. It's these people that cost the system its' money.
Degrees are no longer the valuable accessory they once were. Why? Every fucker's got one and few have any idea of what to do with it. An all too familiar trajectory is – Get a degree > work in a call centre while you're 'figuring out' what you want to do > wake up when you're 30 realising that you did 3 years of pointless education. I bet there are so many people out there more apt for the course but couldn't afford / weren't encouraged to go for it.
I also know plenty of people who didn't go to university and got stuck in from age 18. Super successful and intelligent, and prove that you don't NEED to go to university to become a fully rounded adult.
Education is a right. A degree (for the sake of having a degree) isn't.