"I don’t know exactly how much I owe in student loans but based on what other people owe I think it is probably around £40,000. I’m not worried about it yet."
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostYep, I read this article this morning and couldn't believe the amount of debt a graduate starts their employment with: https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...th-it-studentsComment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostYep, I read this article this morning and couldn't believe the amount of debt a graduate starts their employment with: https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...th-it-students
I owed about £2K by the time I left university and that seemed scary at the time and that was with the government paying me to go.
It seems to me a graduate tax would be a better solution, or at least a less bad solution. Pay a slightly higher rate of income tax for the rest of your life in exchange for free further education and a grant.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThis can only be achieved by increasing tax, or by reducing drastically the number of places. Or just make certain courses free (perhaps just Physics, Maths, Chemistry, English and History); the rest can subsidise those.
Science degrees are a big must - but so are other essential tech disciplines including computing degrees. All I remember is that there was too much focus on the academic side of the subjects without much in the way of work-based examples. Uni in no way prepared you for the office workplace, but I suppose they want to keep people in academia forever.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by pr1 View Post"I don’t know exactly how much I owe in student loans but based on what other people owe I think it is probably around £40,000. I’m not worried about it yet."
Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI started work with £600 of debt. Spent on beer. I thought it was a lot of money. Inflation helped out enormously.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostThis can only be achieved by increasing tax, or by reducing drastically the number of places. Or just make certain courses free (perhaps just Physics, Maths, Chemistry, English and History); the rest can subsidise those.
UKIP would make STEM tuition-fee free, and revise net migration count - TES
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Originally posted by The_Equalizer View PostThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostI'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.
I left uni having made a profit by working a Saturday job in the first year then full summers of night shifts between the other years. Obviously no fees back in the early 90s but no grants either.Comment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostQuite possibly, but each party has a small selection of ideas that appeal. No party has an overall package that I've seen as worth voting for. I've been impressed with PM May since he left Top Gear; doing a cracking job at No 10.Comment
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Originally posted by The_Equalizer View PostIt was rather tongue-in-cheek. I think it makes good very good sense to me.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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