well following the political CLUSTERFUCK that happened earlier today, with the open betrayal of our coalition Liberal Democrat party and their complete u-turn on educational policy... i feel it's time a discussion was had on the matter. i am particularly interested in hearing our american member's opinions, seeing as they have a vastly diverse and disproportionate state/private arrangement with colleges. what do you people think of unlimited tuition fees? limited tuition fees?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 … es-of-9000
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the cutting of all government funding will also severely affect bursary and scholarship funds, so the idea of 'equal access' to higher-education will most definitely be harmed by this change. one thing i do not want to see for my nation's education system is a ranking of elitist exclusivity in which top universities can charge harvard-yale prices. we ALREADY have such a system of unfair discrimination in our public-school system, where people are provided with much better education and facility standards because of personal wealth, not ability. i have seen a lot of numbskulls get into average-universities, because of their school and not their brain.
thoughts?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/201 … es-of-9000
[video in link]
for the record, current tuition fees are capped, nation-wide, at around £3,300/year. a large part of the student's education and university funding is provided by the government, which standardises the entire process. the loans given to students are also given from a partly state-sponsored company that operates to strict government guidelines, so no students get into the sharkish pockets of poor bank-loan policies or ridiculous interest rates. in my opinion, this is the eroding of the PRINCIPLE of universal rights and opportunities. allowing a 'tariff' of fees, with elite institutions being able to charge more or 'exceptional' prices, basically sets us up for a form of privilege-discrimination.Students could pay up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees in changes that could be introduced as soon as 2012, ministers said today.
The universities minister, David Willetts, has announced proposals to raise the "basic threshold" for tuition fees to £6,000, with institutions able to charge up to £9,000 in "exceptional circumstances". No publicly funded university would be able to charge more.
the cutting of all government funding will also severely affect bursary and scholarship funds, so the idea of 'equal access' to higher-education will most definitely be harmed by this change. one thing i do not want to see for my nation's education system is a ranking of elitist exclusivity in which top universities can charge harvard-yale prices. we ALREADY have such a system of unfair discrimination in our public-school system, where people are provided with much better education and facility standards because of personal wealth, not ability. i have seen a lot of numbskulls get into average-universities, because of their school and not their brain.
thoughts?
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/