Saturday, 6 February 2010

Student Finances

I think there's a general agreement amongst us students that the government are trying to get as much money out of us as physically possible. Merely the fact that we have to pay so much for an education is infuriating. I mean, it's fair enough that we need to pay for the tutors and the time but over £3,000 a year? I only have a 15 hour week! And I know a lot of students who have less than that. So what are we paying for? Excessive building works to try and attract more students to come, just so they can be doing the exact same thing as us?
I love Uni and I think it's worth that money, but that along with rent and food leaves most of us struggling.
Then on top of that there is talk going on about us having to pay more money out if we're not working while we're learning. Some courses are extremely intense and many students don't have the time to work and learn (which I think is the far more important of the two seeing as we're paying over three grand to be here in the first place). We shouldn't be treated like we're being punished for wanting a degree. How about rather than taking money from us, taking it from some of those people who decide that popping children out one after the other and taking money from the government is the best source of income?
Still they are talking about raising tuition fees! Some of my classmates and I were discussing this just yesterday, and there is talk about raising fees anything from £1,000 to £10,000. Apparently this is in an attempt to get us out of the credit crisis for the future... HELLO!? We are the future. Taking more money from us will just be leaving the next generation of workers in a hole before we even start. This certainly is not the solution for such a problem.
Now I'm not claiming to know the answer but I know that if we have to pay more, this country will no doubt fall into an even deeper hole of financial disaster.

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