Zoe dares to have an opinion in front of people then hides under her desk for the rest of the day.

[zoecb]

A political issue! Run for the hills! 
I don't ususally do this, in fact, I avoid it like the plague, but I feel like pointing out some things that are quite important and people seem to be missing completely regarding the whole student fees affair.

Firstly, I don't think people should be paying £9000/year tuition. I think the current £3000 is much

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[peppapig]

Would you have been happy not to get a degree, or have you always wanted to teach?

[zoecb]

I'd have been OK without a degree. I didn't do one for employment reasons at all (it's a BA English!) - I did it as education for the sake of education, to enrich myself spiritually. My current job, and a lot of other jobs I may find myself doing at some point (not teaching, if I do do that) are jobs I think I can/could do just as well having come straight into them from A levels.

[peppapig]

I didn't study primarily for employment reasons euither when I started, but if I could not have done it, I'd have always regretted it.

Mind you, I'm still not finished!

I would have been the last year to get a grant if I had enrolled after my extra year of A'levels. I could not have afforded to go as I did not live with my parents. I was not prepared to make the commitment to be in a huge amount of debt and at the time, living on campus was something my partner was very much against. I moved out of home when I was 16...

[bluebeing]

I agree entirely with all of that

Good post!

[athena25]

Back of fag packet maths says that in many instances these loans will *never* be paid off, given size of loan plus interest rates