Re: [kent-grads] Medieval centre under threat

[Leo Sapiets <leo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I often wonder what planet the people are on who talk about how
students get an easy life through university, then pick up well
paid jobs when they get their degree.  Common question they ask
is why should students get a free ride, considering they will get
lots of money when they start work?

Well, I am sure I am no exception - it cost me over £22000 to put
my daughter through uni (tuition fees £3300, rent £8000, living
costs, moving expenses, rail fares, field trips etc £11000). In
the meantime, although she also took a bar job, she used the
student loan of £8100.  That's over £30,000.

If she gets a job, she will likely start on about £15000.  If she
had to pay back all the money it took, it would  probably take at
least 20 years to pay back the "free ride".

Would I go to uni now under those conditions ? No chance!

Leo


On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:27:31 EDT, you wrote:

>In a message dated 01/10/03 18:03:38 GMT Daylight Time, 
>daniel.rigal@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>> It seems to me that we are are regressing into the
>> 19th century rather then moving forward into the 21st.
>> 
>> I can say for certain that if I had been faced with having to
>> pay £20,000 of my own money to go to University then I simply
>> wouldn't have gone. No amount of cheap credit would have
>> persuaded me go £20,000 under.
>> 
>> Daniel.
>> 
>
>                 I feel exactly the same, Daniel. My parents couldn't afford 
>their share of my grant as it was. My kids are coming up to thinking about 
>tertiary education, and I really don't know how we or they are gong to manage, or 
>if it is even worth it any more - if everyone has a degree, what is it 
>actually worth?
>                                Fiz.


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