Yep... a thread about tuition fees

[marshlander]

My son graduated from university in the USA earlier this year and somehow has a six-figure debt to repay. There the charges came thick and fast from the outset. For example, he was required to pay a substantial fee every time he submitted an application to a university simply to pay for some administrator to read the application! In comparison, £9,000 for tuition seems like peanuts. However, the situation here in the UK seems morally twisted. I know the sums aren't connected to the same pots, but I have trouble working out how bankers can run their businesses into a state from whence any of the rest of us would have been forced into liquidation, whilst the state picks up the tab and then the rest of us have to bear the outcome of cuts to claw back the money to cover the debt repayments.

As to voting, yes I feel betrayed and lied to, but I am grateful for one realisation. Prior to this government I didn't think my opinion of politicians could sink any lower.