Directly take them to task for wasting ‘their’ time and ‘their’ money with some authority and confidence and they’ll never have30k+ at least of debt, at the point of leaving university, with 9% of income paid above £21,000. How are these people supposed to manage or even obtain a mortgage when they decide to try and buy a home? What a mess. They passed this blatant and politically motivated decision to claw back and dissuade applications to higher education far too easily claiming it had to be a ‘tough’ decision in face of the economy. The Russell Group and the Government had better hope to hell applications for university places outside their top 20 will drop significantly as they so desire otherwise they’re going to have to worry about the extra cash being forked out regarding the extra fees themselves (maybe even losing that extra 1/3 of H.E.F.C.E public funding the R.G already receive over everyone else?). The amusing thing to me is that Osborne has already implied recently that most graduates need not worry about paying back their fees since most of them won’t ever be earning above £21,000 when they leave, HAIL HOSANNAS! At this point I’d say to anyone who has a real desire and determination to go to university and improve themselves to look into the realities of the current situation and to not let it deter them if it’s really what they want.

Even if the economy were to be magically rejuvenated tomorrow, I doubt they would repeal these plans. It’s primarily an ideological step backwards in order to rarify higher education in order to limit anyone who has a desire to be educated.

Universities might somehow have diluted a sacred institution of higher academic education – as the Russell Group continuously imply whenever one of their ilk are grudgingly interviewed on Newsnight. I’d just fear the next step they’ll likely want to take toward the wholly inequitable system of fees being demanded upfront and competing private companies deciding who is eligible for the best universities regardless of merit and achievement. I anticipated with dread that there would be this change last summer simply because it was a predictable move regarding the character of a conservative government. I hope I’m wrong in fearing how further they’ll try and take this trend in 10 or 15 years time if they maintain power. I wouldn’t even give a hope Ed Milliband or any influence his ex troop such as Charles Clarke, the ex Secretary of State, would reverse it since the dirty work will have already been done for them.

Oh well, at least there will be no more room for certain feckless lecturers to fob off their students with a film or documentary vaguely related to their subject for a few hours while they catch up with marking papers. Students can d to listen to some rent-a-tory idiot dismissing them while claiming they are paying for ‘their’ education out of ‘their’ taxes ever again.

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