Students say No! to increased university tuition fees!

no problem. after the tories cut genuinely unnecessary expenses, like trident, then they have a case for cutting the funding for education. at the moment they don't.

This goes the same in my country and I don't understand this university who would implement tuition fees increased with our present economic turmoil nowadays. Everybody is feeling financial hardship already...what more can they want from us. Upsetting news.

The Tuition cost paid by students is about 1/3 of the total cost of a college education. This does not include any financial aid the student might receive. Back in the time I went to college(the dark ages according to my children) there was student loans and financial aid provided by the college. Almost every student that attended college had a part time job during the school year and held one or two jobs in the summer. Now only a few seem to have a job in the summer and few work during the school year. Financial aid has increases faster than the cost of college which has increased much more than the cost of living. To me students have to provide a greater share of the cost of a college education. I say good for Britain in asking the students to pay a greater share of their education.

I also think that the proposed doubling, if not trippling, of uni tuition fees is not acceptable as it will likely deter the poorer students from going to university. That said, I think there is a case for students to pay some fees - as they currently do - to go to university: after all, getting a degree will often benefit them financially throughout their working life and it seems only fair therefore that they contribute to the cost of their uni education and not expect all taxpayers, many of whom will not have gone to uni, to foot all of the bill. That's why I think the current system, though not perfect, has got the balance broadly right. Ie the concept of co-payment: the cost of uni education been born jointly by the general taxpayer and the student who benefits from that education. What however is proposed would shift the vast majority of the cost to the student, which is unacceptable, particularly for those coming from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Having said all this, I think a big problem which has brought this to a head is that TOO MANY people are going to uni. Uni is not suitable for everyone, there are many alternative trades and careers that can be undertaken without the need to go to uni. Too many students and a proliferation of courses - some of which are of dubious value - have brought this situation to a head, worsened of course by the financial crisis. A-levels in my view have been debased - we should toughen up A level standards to what they were 20 years ago and allow the numbers going to uni to go downwards back to around 25% level. The previous administration's wish to have 50% of people going to uni was always unrealistic. If the number of students falls back to 25% level, this will in a large measure help with the current uni funding crisis.

Government uppin prices... Government in charge of student loans... Government owning your life... People working their fingers to the bone to pay for the privilege to pay more... And the entire world hasn't risen up against government yet? What the hell are we waiting for? Folks blaming one side or the other, while every politician is virtually the same. As a very wise man once said to me, "What happens to government when people stop paying for it?" A question I'm asking every government in the world" WTF do you need the money for? Just like my mother's advice to me would go in one ear and out the other - the world's privately earned money pours into government's pocket just to fall out the other. My bad that I didn't listen, and too bad I can't make a law and demand she give me more advice.

If I were a student now, definitely I would support for no tuition increase. I've been a student before and it's really difficult to continue studying because of the expensive tuition fees. The government should help many of the students who would like to finish studies but could not even enroll there selves due to unaffordable tuition fees.