Student debt

[linedancer16]

Would you like your children/grandchildren reaching the age of 21 with a debt of possibly £27,000 to repay as well as costs of living (rent food books clothes etc) while they are at uni for 3 years. When they leave, how many actually get to earn enough to repay it quickly on top of rent/mortgage, bills, council tax etc. My two left uni 10 years ago and are still paying off their student loans (and its not interest free) and they've both worked without break for all that time.

[pastafreak]

My ex-who has the income-would not have helped our daughter...nor would she have asked him. I-on the other hand-have very little income. If I was able-I certainly would have helped-tho I doubt she would take it from me either.

By the way-it is no good judging all students by the behaviour of a relative few.

[jaydah]

As Judge says and who is the tax-payers for these einstien egotists = those who took apprenticeships !

[New Judge]

Of course, steve. That's why the country has had to import upwards of a million people from abroad to fill these non-existent vacancies in recent years, and why workers from Eastern Europe continue even today to arrive here to fill jobs.

And in any case, even if there are no jobs (which people in many areas - particularly the larger towns and cities - would dispute) that is insufficient justification to enrol young people on worthless degree courses which they seem to expect the taxpayer to continue to fund. They would be better off (personally and financially) spending their time looking for work.

Of course some people need to go to University, But to suggest that 40-50% need to is ludicrous. A far more rigorous assessment needs to be made of the benefits of university education and as I said earlier, now that the students themselves are being asked to meet more of the costs, they may be instrumental in initiating that assessment.

[chelle7272]

Well said judge