Labour to cut Tuition Fees...

[davepoth]

...to a maximum of £6000. They will fund this by canceling a corporation tax cut, and by charging extra interest to the highest earning graduates.

Thoughts?

[davepoth]

I find it interesting that to "differentiate" themselves from the current government they are not suggesting dropping fees back to the previous level - a tacit admission that in fact the current government's stance on the issue, in that the fees need to be much higher to be sustainable, is correct. They've also done away with the concept of a student tax.

[davepoth]

cymtriks said:

They could easily afford to cut the fees to zero and reinstate grants if they stopped sending kids to do degrees that neither the kids nor the nation benefit from.

Circa 3% go to uni.
Paid for by grants.

It worked before but of course they can't possibly admit that this was better and how would they hide youth unemployment and what about gloating about how much standards have improved....

Oh well.

It's what the current government are doing by stealth; They can't just come out and say "we're reducing the number of degrees by 90%", but if they reduce the number of people applying, there will be no need for the courses, which will wither of their own accord. I just hope they'll get the technical colleges and apprenticeships in place to take up the slack.