And who's paying for them to stay in school? The poor university grads who have just got their first job! (already with a student loan to pay off)

Stupid income tax! It all gets wasted on stuff like this. Our goverment is full of big ideas but no sense on how to implement them fairly.

"Oh hello there Mr. Hawkins....we know you only earn 10k a year but were going to take 20% of it and give it to a bunch of stupid dropouts so that we can keep 'em off the streets...you understand don't you? We're sure you can manage on only one meal a day and living in a cardboard box. While you're at it, my Jaguar is a bit old and I could do with a sooper-dooper new one."

Same situation, 'cept I'm already in college. I think its all very well for Lep and others already in University to say this sort of thing. However, looking at both sides of the arguement:

So clearly its doing some good. However, on the other hand:

[qoute]Ayo: The money is the only reason I'm at college... that and my mother...[quote]

So yeah, I see what your saying about the little bleeders just going because of the money.

/me passes general studies

He's realising now that sending everyone he possibly can to University is the worst idea that this Government had..

I would be happy to wager that fees would still be Government funded and low - IF we hadn't convinced a lot of morons that they can go to Uni, when they clearly arent up to it...

i am not reading all this cause its not interesting to an old person, but i would like to comment seriously if i may,

my wife and i have always shared the belief, that if all schooling were free to everyone, we eventually would benefit more in the end than the current methodology.

think about all the poor smart people, barred from attending a school of higher learning simply because of the cost, its a fact, that people whom want to do something, more than likely will succeed at it... most rich people send their deadbeat children to college, and damned few of those excel at it, where children whom luck into a scholarship of some sort, in most cases are driven to succeed. afterall, the poor dont have mommy and daddy as a fall back

anywho's, no insult to our present snarkpit membership, especially since many are either attending college, or have already, but truly, snarkpit is not a good representation of the world as a whole.. so please do not use this site as a basis for your theory if you disagree with me..

thanx for listening

Uni students have to pay ?1000 tuition fees every year- which works out to about ?30-?40/week. We also have seperate accomodation charges on top of that, which for me at least is double that. If they increase tuition fees to ?3000, that's going to be ?100+ a week. So I think it's all very well for me to say this sort of thing- it's absurd that you get paid ?30/week to just turn up for at least 10 hours a week to a free education. I'm sure you appreciate the extra money, but you could still go to college without it, right?

note: my situation is quite good money-wise, despite my mum also being a single parent, but I am bitching for the average (majority) student!