Tell me you are not being serious. The lower fees are an investment. Who will make up the shortfall? How about the higher taxes gained from the higher earning university graduates ffs. There's a bigger picture than the current issue of shortfall and costs. While it may offend you the correct course of action is to keep the fees low to allow higher education to remain open to the maximum number of people, and lower corporation tax. Both factors (lower tax, highly educated workforce) in turn will make the state a very attractive prospect to Foreign Direct Investment then you will see the initial government outlay being paid back. The north is only increasing its reliance on the public jobs sector. Raising fees will not bring in a substantial amount of money in the short term and will end up costing alot in the long term
What about the current graduates, never mind future graduates, who can't get jobs and any that do have to take low paid jobs so they won't be paying a lot of tax?
Is that their fault. Instead of raising the already barely affordable fees, hows about forcing the universities to create extra capacity in high demand courses (the ones that will return investment) like Law, Medicine, is there not a shortfall of Doctors?, and drop the mickey mouse ****e like media studies etc. Force them to streamline their tutoring to more beneficial degrees.
Basically - the students who are likely to get the high earning jobs and pay the high taxes are the same ones who are very intelligent and willing to pay the high tuition fees. The ones who arent willing wouldnt get good jobs after anyway. Its win win. It was RIGHT to raise the tuition costs and the Tories have done a great job so far.
Taking on extra students would decrease the quality of education delivered which would do more damage than good. I do agree though that they need to do away with pointless degrees though.
You make no sense, im assuming you got turned down from every university you applied for as your post contains bitterness plus no knowledge of anything to do wioth university education
the colour of the hair of the heir to the throne will soon be irrelevant.. cos he will be a slaphead within a couple of seasons.. all masons are slapheads and they are running football in this country.. along with the judiciary etc hair is a means of transmitting messages from the Cosmos and so it is frowned upon (npi) i dont want to get all Tinker Tailor Slaphead Twat about it but it is risky even mentioning it unless you use code words.. and its about time we rose up and got rid of the gin sodden incontinent old gits..
I never stated it was a case of cramming more people into the same course lecture theatre and tutorials. Medicine has umpteen specialties they could exploit and teach as a replacement to other courses, ditch the chaff and hire more lecturers in other fields.
That's what I thought you meant when you said create a higher capacity on proper courses. To be honest there is actually a lot of money to be saved in education (and other departments as well for that matter) through one word, efficiency. If they make the service more efficient then the fees won't be an issue. Whether or not that will happen though is anyone's guess because Governments thrive on inefficiency.
