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Good stuff. Parents can be so difficult. Some just don’t engage while others are too engaged!

She should be fine. She always wanted to be a teacher but fell into a good job after uni. She realised she didn’t really like it that much and was diagnosed with cancer when she was pregnant with our twin girls in 2010. Now she is better she decided to fulfil her life dream. Even if she decides...

But more kids from poorer backgrounds are going to uni now than before fees. This is a myth that it puts them off. P.s. my wife is currently retraining at the age of 39 to be a teacher. It has cost her 9k. She wants to be a teacher and is pragmatic and says I will never pay it off so it is...

Sorry I did not mean overall in society. I meant in terms of going to uni. The difference between the proportion of kids from disadvantaged backgrounds going to uni and those not from disadvantaged backgrounds has closed. That is a fact. The rest of your post assumes it has got worse when...

Can anyone explain why free tuition fees is a thing but regressive please? Why should the bin man’s taxes pay for the bankers kids to go to uni? I just don’t get it. If people go to uni and don’t earn much afterwards then they don’t pay anything back and it is eventually just written off...