It's a social investment in the future of the country, there's nothing objectively correct that at some arbitrary point in your education you suddenly need to pay. I wonder when you want to start having school children accrue their loans for primary/secondary school?
Why is part of your education free and part of it not? And perhaps the most important part that you arguably desperately need if you want to access a middle class job?
Isn't that massively elitist and a class discriminator? That when you do finally get that job you have to pay a load of money back that your richer peers just put in a saving account and earned some free money?
And if that's what's changed why do so many more people go to university now than previously?
Everything you've just said makes absolutely no sense from a different perspective.
The world is unfair and some people are born into money and many many more are not. The government has taken the decision to provide free education up to a specific level. Should you wish to pursue a degree, the government provides a debt mechanism to do this.
The debt is non-repayable until you have pretty much become financially successful and is written off after 25 years. I really don't see this as a major issue. There is nothing financially stopping you going to University.
I'd actually argue that the government debt should also cover residential accommodation and minimum living costs.
It's a social investment in the future of the country, there's nothing objectively correct that at some arbitrary point in your education you suddenly need to pay. I wonder when you want to start having school children accrue their loans for primary/secondary school?
Why is part of your education free and part of it not? And perhaps the most important part that you arguably desperately need if you want to access a middle class job?
Isn't that massively elitist and a class discriminator? That when you do finally get that job you have to pay a load of money back that your richer peers just put in a saving account and earned some free money?
And if that's what's changed why do so many more people go to university now than previously?
Everything you've just said makes absolutely no sense from a different perspective.