Buy a place at university for just 28K.

[Leekbrookgull]

Just how far this will go is anyones guess,but it seems the government is prepared to allow students to 'buy their way into uni' at a fee of 28K per year ? What are they on a suicide mission.

 

[16bha]

Does it come with a parking space at Falmer Campus?

 

[Superphil]

Is that comparable with the cost to go to universty in other Western countries?

 

[strings]

Significantly cheaper to go and study in Holland. The Student experience is good, many courses are taught in English, you get to experience another culture and the fees are significantly cheaper - that is what I would be doing if I was 18 again.

 

[Superphil]

In the States it appears to be between $10 and $25K per year :yikes:

US Universities fall under two major categories: public (state supported), and private (independent) institutions. International students’ tuition expenses at state schools are based on nonresident costs, which are still usually less expensive than those of private universities. It’s important to note that the cost of a program in a US school does not necessarily affect its quality. A brief idea can be got from the following table:

University Type ----------------- Average Tuition Fees
(annual in U.S. Dollars)

Private Institutions (High Cost) $ 25,000
Private Institutions (Low Cost) $ 15,000
State Institutions (High Cost) $ 20,000
State Institutions (Low Cost) $ 10,000

No wonder so many of them come over here to go to university, and probably still will, far cheaper here.

 

[Foolg]

Just how far this will go is anyones guess,but it seems the government is prepared to allow students to 'buy their way into uni' at a fee of 28K per year ? What are they on a suicide mission.

Absolutely ridiculous.
Luckily I managed to avoid the fee increase by going this September/October, if not i'd be paying just over 9k a year more for the same course next year. If so, I'm pretty sure as Strings said, i'd have considered going and studying in Holland.

 

[Hotchilidog]

So the "we are all in this together" govt strike another blow for social mobility, hurrah!. I am now assuming the word 'meritocracy' has been deleted from the English Dictionary as it obviously redundant now. You will really couldn't make this stuff up, the brazen cozying up to and appeasement of those who are more than able to look after themselves at the expense of the rest. How any Lib Dems who are a part of this can sleep at night is beyond me.

 

[beorhthelm]

let us just remember who first set us on this path, introducing fees for univeristy, then raised them to 3k, then commissioned a report on how to raise them again. we marched back in 1998 as we said it was the thin end of the wedge.

having said that we "let" foreign students pay full wack, why not allow UK students here to pay? as long as its additional spaces rather than replacing those on a supposedly state funded places.

 

[Common as Mook]

Doesn't this mean that they are freeing up cheaper places for the less fortunate? Maybe I'm reading it wrongly, but that's what it seems, and if so, surely a good thing?

 

[Superphil]

Doesn't this mean that they are freeing up cheaper places for the less fortunate? Maybe I'm reading it wrongly, but that's what it seems, and if so, surely a good thing?

How dare you suggest they are doing anything of the sort

 

[Kazenga <3]

Don't know how the f*** I'm gonna pay my fees

 

[Hotchilidog]

Doesn't this mean that they are freeing up cheaper places for the less fortunate? Maybe I'm reading it wrongly, but that's what it seems, and if so, surely a good thing?

Doing the opposite with the government looking to cut 10,000publicly funded uni places. The little darlings

 

[bhaexpress]

These £28k courses ? Is every course open to this or is it just the ones that are less likely to bring about long term employment ? Is this just another 'great' idea where the public ends up paying (though unemployment benefits) ?

Does having a degree make that much difference any more ?

 

[Common as Mook]

How dare you suggest they are doing anything of the sort

I know - dastardly nasty Tories could never do anything that might be of benefit to the nation.

Seriously though - I know very little about this subject, just picking up on a thought train I had.

 

[Return of the Rev]

thought it was another parking for falmer thread

 

[Husty]

Absolutely ridiculous.
Luckily I managed to avoid the fee increase by going this September/October, if not i'd be paying just over 9k a year more for the same course next year. If so, I'm pretty sure as Strings said, i'd have considered going and studying in Holland.

How would you be paying over 9k per year more when you already pay 3k and the max is 9k?

I am 18, I'm finishing my A Levels this year but have not applied, I will do so next year. I genuinely dont get the fuss, they could either pay for this by upping everyones taxes or by taxing those who graduate (which is essentially what this system is).You are not paying a dime up front either so I do not see why so many people my age are making out they cant afford to go? What has miraculously changed between this year and next in terms of up front fee required?

 

[Husty]

I know - dastardly nasty Tories could never do anything that might be of benefit to the nation.

Seriously though - I know very little about this subject, just picking up on a thought train I had.

While there is a lot of idiotic hysteria about this, what they were proposing was ludicrous, they were saying if you couldn't get a university place on merit, but that if you had the cash you could buy you way in. Which I don't think anyone (except those in the Tory party perhaps) would agree with.

 

[Spiros]

Don't know how the f*** I'm gonna pay my fees

Well if you're going to uni in england then you won't start paying unless or until you earn £21K a year anyway, so what's there to worry about?

 

[Common as Mook]

But isn't just that they are looking at ways of creating extra places? By allowing business sponsored places (which i think is what it really is, not prigvately funded) they are freeing up more of the subsidised spaces further down the chain, are they not?

 

[Kazenga <3]

Well if you're going to uni in england then you won't start paying unless or until you earn £21K a year anyway, so what's there to worry about?

Then theoretically I could just get a shit paying job and never have to pay my fees... but then that defeats the point of going to uni..