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Interesting point of view made this moring on the news by someone from the Guardian. It is/should be the richer people who should be demonstrating, as it is them who will have the greatest burden when they start working, as they will be earning the most money, thereofre required to pay off their...

Where has this opinion that people in the past used to get free education come from?

Very, very good, he is pretty much spot on, so long as the peson is adding value to society. I am not sure it needed somone with a degree to go on stage with a balloon in Wandsworth and drag it around making funny noises, I could do that.

I agree with this post. I'd like to point out the fact it wasn't ever free years ago. Yes you were 'given' a grant, but when you left university (or polytechnic) you got a job and paid between 33p in the pound tax (late 70s, early 80s) reducing to 25p in the pound at the time of the...

Was it an NSC day out? (Should that be ruffians chat?)

:blush: oops, misread :p

Hey, it's the chestnut again. Who introduced student loans?

What do we want? Lower taxes for Non Graduates! When do we want them? Back Dated since I left school in 1984 and got a job! And let the graduates, on higher taxes, pay for the lot of it.

ooh, you'll upset the cognescenti on here.

That would be my thought, a graduate could end up paying 26/46p in the pound in income tax as soon as they get a job (even if if they end up in Tesco or working in a pub(23p obviously)), which would seem no fairer to me. How long would they pay that rate? Long enough to cover the amount the...

It certainly is an idea that seems to have been well discussed. How much extra tax would you expect a graduate to pay, over say a non graduate earning the same amount of money? Is it not similar to how the current debt works? You leave University, get a job, and when you start to earn enough...

That old chestnut eh? Out of interest, does anyone have any viable suggestions as to how higher/further education should be paid for? Rather than constant critisism of consecutive governments, what do you think would be the fairest way of paying for it?

Such a shame Labour gor voted out, they'd know what to do