Student tuition fees: Browne review urges no limits

[Filuwaúrdjan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11519642

No, I don't think that I agree with this at all. So long as income tax is as low as it is, then some student contribution makes sense, but potentially as high as £12,000 a year? Not that most universities would be able to charge fees like that anyway (wouldn't get the students). Yet the government is slashing funding for universities, generally. So the absurd imbalance towards self-appointed* 'elite' universities (which is a particular problem with research funding. This is sick but true; because of the way they calculate things, the research councils are biased towards institutions that already have a lot of money and resources) will get even worse than it is now. How is this acceptable?

What matters now is political; if the government broadly implements the recommendations of the Browne stuff (and it would be a major shock if it didn't), what will the LibDems do?

It's worth noting that this would only apply in England, but the systems elsewhere in Britain would have to adjust - at some point - for obvious reasons.

[Хahar 🤔]

£12,000 a year would not be on the high end here.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

£12,000 a year would not be on the high end here.

Ah, but you see the way the American university system is structured and funded is usually seen as the thing to avoid here.

[tpfkaw]

£12,000 a year would not be on the high end here.

When you factor in financial aid, it would be.

[opebo]

£12,000 a year would not be on the high end here.

Ah, but you see the way the American university system is structured and funded is usually seen as the thing to avoid here.

Yes, the Bad Place is useful to all foreigners as a cautionary dystopia - a veritable hell on earth.

[Earth]

This is a very good article from Lenin's Tomb on the tuition issue:

Here.

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[ag]

£12,000 a year would not be on the high end here.

Ah, but you see the way the American university system is structured and funded is usually seen as the thing to avoid here.

Yes, the Bad Place is useful to all foreigners as a cautionary dystopia - a veritable hell on earth.

I am sure that whatever Thai school you happen to teach at beats Harvard in value ))

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