Exactly,a free for all! (Higher Education - Free for all or Fee for all?)

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Product:	Higher Education - Free for all or Fee for all?
Date:	25/08/01 (117 review reads)
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Advantages: If your wealthy you get the best, If your fairly wealthy your ok, Graduation tax

Disadvantages: If your skint its Paisley for you

So you have your “easier” A-Levels or proper ones with your three year social or academic degree lined up.Now your parents have to pay for it.Remember that the top ten universities are very selective on their intake and don’t want their elite pupils working part time to supplement the drinking.

The first year is usually en suite if you’re lucky in a hall of residence. King College London asks for an exhuburent 121 pounds a week for B&B.Leeds, the academic capitol of the north weighs in at 109. Cambridge rejects could find themselves at LSE paying 108 London rates. The Heart of England’s top school requires 105 to bed and board. Manchester wants the same although the city is far groovier.

These guys demand just under a ton for privilege. Exeter, Bristol, Durham, Edingborough, Reading, Leicester, Nottingham, Southampton, and university college.
This accommodation is a single room with meals. From a standard grant it leaves you 800pounds for the rest of your needies to stay alive, Beer, fags and snacks.

The average rents in London for students away from the halls start at 80 pounds a week. The other cites want around sixty until you get to 45-50 at the smaller towns.
Its interesting to note that the acclaimed colleges seem to offer the highest on campus accommodations which suggests they are still trying to price out the blue collars.
There are numerous prejudice children and mature students will hit at the top universities. Finance is away to get their target students into their colleges.

Oxbridge are talking tuition fees for everyone up and around the American Ivy League prices next year. They are not happy at all with the amount of poor standard kids applying. Finances are the best way to push away the riff raff, with the lucky few getting scholarships.
Oxbridge’s intake has four fifths from social groups A and B leaving an airpocket for the remaining 90 percent of applications f
rom the state sector.
Unless you have professional parents there is little chance of making the top ten colleges, purely because they have to make way for clotted creams children (thick and rich kids) Prince William got into St Andrews with three poor A-levels that wouldn’t have charted ten years a go.

With the introduction of fees and loans over state grants Blair is saying that you pay now and reap the reward later. A graduate tax would be much fairer and unilateral where graduates pay back their costs in a higher tax bracket according to their earnings.
But then of course it means the top universities would be exposed and could not cherry pick their independent sector kids to pay the fees.
There is a deliberate mechanism in New Labors policy to stop poorer students studying away from home.You cant get the full college experience without being independent of your parents and learning to budget.

Its obvious that no student can survive on the low interest loans available and have the full experience they are designed to give. If entrants work they are three times more likely to drop out or ditch the course. At Oxbridge you are not allowed to work full stop. You can see why few state school kids are encouraged to go there or survive it.

University is costed towards a middle class parent supplementing it with that amount rising every year. In return for their patience, unis will increase fees to close out the low income families securing the institutions kudos and academic standing.
A-Levels and GCSE’s are getting too easy to pass which floods the colleges with sub standard students. They have to be dissected and posted to the universities that are suitable for their income and skills regardless of their erroneously inflated passes.

The only way higher education is equal to all is if they can afford it. Oxbridge and New Labors latest trick to keep the hoi poloi out of their fabled colleges is to sabota
ge the fabled entrance exam. Independent private school kids take expensive crammer lessons to help pass these stringent snobby entrance exam tests.

The more cunning state school students could get a grant to help pas this test. But Mr Blunkett has recommended that it’s axed. This gives yet again an advantage to the private sector that fill 50 percent of the places from the seven- percent sector.

With about a third of the nations youth going to some sort of college or university the average family is going to have a six grand debt. If you have ever tried to pay off your five hundred on the credit card you will know how hard debt is to clear.
But students with poor credit records and student debts could fine it extremely tough to get a loan or mortgage on graduation.
We all know that when our overdraught is stretched we get a call from he bank to take out a hideous loan to cover it. The moment you graduate you with a ten grand loan to pay off you can forget such lucrative offers.

Will the new generation of graduates find it hard to get a mortgage and will the parents yet again have to put up the house to secure their kids future.Mr Blair is doing everything he can to help the banks get our kids hooked into debt and paying of interest for a long long long time.

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