Business Study Education, What Should Be Done With Higher Education?
Q: The NuLabcur proposals on top-up fees are wrong both in practice and
principle. They have been made worse by the latest concessions which
will grant privileges to students on the basis of their parental income
- below a certain parental income, students will not be charged top-up
fees at all and will receive bursaries. This is obnoxious in the
extreme.
What should be done? Provide state scholarships for 20% of
school-leavers in bona fide academic subjects, cease state funding
of the non-degrees such as business studies and media studies,
encourage vocation post-school courses. Those who cannot get a state
university scholarship can take a degree part-time.
A:I believe that those who wish to attend University *should* pay something
towards their higher education. The taxpayer has paid for their education for
13/14 years, so surely they can contribute. If they can't pay, or their
parents can't or won't pay, they can get a Government loan and agree to pay it
back once they get their degree and start to work. I also believe that there
should be some kind of limit as to who is qualified for University. At the
moment it appears that everyone wants to go even though they may never use what
they learn once they leave. One poster here admitted that he has never