Best way to pay off student loans?

[SueEllen]

What about those who somehow fail the final module? Or those you pay for an OU degree or other distance learning ones, out of taxed income?

If you can get a student loan for it - and you can get one for the OU - then yes you should pay a graduate tax.

I've worked alongside a good few people who have or were working towards OU degrees in related areas. The companies were impressed by the fact they were working and studying so some of them got the roles over people who already had a degree from a traditional university even though they hadn't finished. (They weren't all old gits.) Others who had finished were preferred candidates even if their prior work experience wasn't in the same area.

[Gibbon]

If you can get a student loan for it - and you can get one for the OU - then yes you should pay a graduate tax.

I've worked alongside a good few people who have or were working towards OU degrees in related areas. The companies were impressed by the fact they were working and studying so some of them got the roles over people who already had a degree from a traditional university even though they hadn't finished. (They weren't all old gits.) Others who had finished were preferred candidates even if their prior work experience wasn't in the same area.

You only answered the first half of the question.

Your answer for the second half is very harsh and a disincentive for bettering yourself. Education isn't all about getting a well paid job.

[d000hg]

You may not have kids, but you will surely benefit from other peoples' kids especially later in life, therefore you and wider society has a vested interest in educating the future generations. I mean when that surgeon is removing your prostate you would like him/her to have the skill to leave your manhood in working order!

Getting a rebate on the £4/hr the government would be spending if you send your kid to private school would be nice - after all you are making room for someone else

[Gibbon]

Is your manhood in your bottom?

I think you need to do some biology. The prostate sits between the bladder and penis (yes you can feel it from the colon but it is alongside it), the nerves to the penis go round the prostate like an onion skin. If suitable a very skilled surgeon can peel these back without damage. If the cancer is far too advanced the the lot comes out, and Viagra won't work as it amplifies the nerve signals. No signals, no fun!

[Whorty]

You were bemoaning the fact that you lot had it for free (or tax payer funded) in the quote I replied to. Taxing grads isn't free.

Eh?

I was saying it doesn't feel right that our generation had it free, but we expect the current generation to get into £50k+ debt.

I'd be comfortable all grads getting an extra x% tax to pay from salary each month. All grads, including our generation (not backdated of course!).

It will never happen to a moot point, but the inequity doesn't sit well with me.

[Whorty]

So someone who goes to UNI but invents something completely unrelated to their degree has to pay an extra X% of tax because they did a degree?

Whataboutery mate.

I don't have a job linked to my degree. Or are you saying anyone who gets a job different to their degree doesn't have to pay back their student loans?

[Whorty]

That's largely how tax works. I have no kids but I can't opt out of paying for school funding, private school/health users can't opt out of their 'fee'.

And you cannot really say "unrelated to their degree". University is about far more than learning a bunch of stuff, at least if it's any good. My degree was maths/physics/compsci but virtually none of it was related to actual coding and software development, however it certainly informs how I do things.

Ooh, cool, I don't have any kids either, can I also opt out of any tax that goes towards paying for other's kids too?

My wife paid into state pension for 33 years but never lived longed enough to receive the pension, do you think using Vetty's logic I could get a refund for the pension payments she made but never benefited from?

[Whorty]

Is your manhood in your bottom?

His voice box is

[ladymuck]

I think you need to do some biology. The prostate sits between the bladder and penis (yes you can feel it from the colon but it is alongside it), the nerves to the penis go round the prostate like an onion skin. If suitable a very skilled surgeon can peel these back without damage. If the cancer is far too advanced the the lot comes out, and Viagra won't work as it amplifies the nerve signals. No signals, no fun!

[ladymuck]

Ooh, cool, I don't have any kids either, can I also opt out of any tax that goes towards paying for other's kids too?

My wife paid into state pension for 33 years but never lived longed enough to receive the pension, do you think using Vetty's logic I could get a refund for the pension payments she made but never benefited from?

The horrible cynic in me thinks HMG wants people to die before retirement age as that helps alleviate the funding issue. Obviously they still have to pay lip service to wanting to fix things like obesity, smoking, drug and alcohol addiction but it's obvious they're not all that bothered.