University Tuiton Fees

[giraffe_02]

Why is that the goverment want more people to go to university and then they increase the tuition fees?

[scruffscat]

er,....think youve probly just answered that yourself

[SaxyJag]

It's because they have to be heard to be saying the right things. Increasing tuition fees is how they'll ensure that only the 'right' people get to go to university.

[undercovers]

the government want as many people in university because it distorts the unemployment figures - e.g. they are not claiming benefits and unemplyed they are running up loads of debt that they will then slowly pay back to the government supported student loads company... while students are not making the govt any money they sure helping the economy and making the statistics look better

they are also putting the tuition fees up as while they want more people in uni they want to spend less on the actual unis so expect the student to cover more of the cost themselves.

[Top Turkey]

But, also remember that along with the increase in tuition fees comes extra bursaries for the really needy. The middle classes will perhaps be worst hit.

Also, the extra money will be used (in theory) to up the standard of each university - they've been underfunded from central government for years.

I write as a middle manager in an old University.