STUDENTS, THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!
According to the BBC NEWS student Fees are to rise between £4000 and £20000 -> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7946912.stm
I've been an Engineering student at Swansea for 3 years, ever since the original £3000 top up fees came in. I'm now in the region of £20,000 in debt with that only set to rocket.
When I read that they want to increase fees I'm disgusted, especially when there are Vice Chancellors earning upwards of £150,000 p/a. Are they trying to set up a similar system as the US with people having to have a college fund to pay their way through university??
Its currently looking like, with the current financial costs, i'll graduate with a £26000+ student debt, It'll be years before that is cleared, especially as once i graduate i'd like to actually have a life, buy a car, go on holiday at least once.
In the assemblies/government buildings obviously they're living in cookoo land. Explain to me where that extra money is going to go apart from in the pockets of the management??
The issue is not just fees though, so we'll have (over a 3year course) between £12000 and £60000 just in Fees. Then what about living costs on top of that? Students will start graduating with basically a mortgage. Lets all increase the national debt again! I mean, its not like we're in a recession or anything based on unsecured loans on things...
This change in policy will only decrease the number of people going to university, reduce the number of people going for engineering, medicine and other long-er term degree schemes.
[ Entry posted at: Tue Mar 17 08:23:32 2009 | 2 comment(s)... | Cat: Money ]
Nick writes:
It's bad. I remember going with Kat to Cardiff to protest about the top up fees that you are now experiencing.
My flatmate is a masters student in the FIT lab and he's recently told me that the department bought a 3D projector that cost them roughly £15,000 and has been sitting in a cupboard since the day it arrived. They spend the money so their budget will be the same as it was the last time. If you use the money one year, you obviously need it and will spend it again the following year. But obviously some departments don't need it. So why isn't this money/investment actually investigated? To me that £15,000 is at least another students fees paid for.
I work for a company that primarily provides software for Universities, and I can say quite honestly that these Universities have too much money.
Why don't they start chasing up the foreign students who are leaving the UK and not paying the fees: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7912548.stm
or for that matter, the UK students who have left and have yet to start paying back their debt. I know I am and I haven't even been graduated for 12 months.
[ Tue Mar 17 09:28:30 2009 ]
Infinity writes:
I was so confused about what to buy, but this makes it undrestndaable.
[ Wed Nov 23 05:45:26 2011 ]