Opinionated: Should University Be Free? Scrapping Tuition Fees -TLDR News
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We asked our audience what they thought about making university free, so in this video, we're examing the pros and cons of free tuition.
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Would have been interesting to find out the educational background of people answering these questions.
Cost of living is killer. Maintenance loans depends on how much your parents earn. Which really hurts middle class students who don’t receive financial support. On top of that, work is almost always zero hour as a student making it extremely hard to budget
The amount of interest on the loans is a massive problem no one is talking about
All I'm saying is that I aced my intermediary statistics class by ignoring the professor and learning it all from CZcams.
I'm in scotland and the universities are free here. They don't get over crowded because you still have to get good grades to get in but it's not like a scholarship. Also Scotland's tuition is free for most people with citizenships in the EU (currently) even though you still need to pay for living accommodations etc.
"Aye" - Scotland
Universities should at least provide an itemized bill showing exactly what the £9000 is going towards.
As a lecturer in design I strongly feel that perhaps a quarter of students are wasting their time and money at university, the system prevents us from kicking them out and focusing on those who work hard.
Wow, you really stepped up your game compared to season 1. It was definitely worth the wait
The real problem is the interest rate on the loan. It is robbery imo. 6.7% is ridiculous and means the prospect of paying it off is almost impossible.
I like the Finnish system that we have, where there are no tuition fees, the government pays you 220€ per month, it pays up to 250€ per month for your rent and you can take a student loan if you want which has an absurdly low interest rate and the state will pay some 30% of your debt if you graduate on time. We also have student apartments that pretty much guarantee similarly priced apartments/dorms for students no matter the city, so you can survive easily even in Helsinki which is usually very expensive.
It be interesting to do detailed studies in the individual fields. You for example stated that their are to many graduates but i often hear that their isn't enough engineers and stem students in general with British students favouring letters. In France it feels that their is a very large proportion of of foreigners working as engineers and studying stem subjects compared to the general population.
Having been through university, Engineering job, redundancy, civil service and into a software apprenticeship I firmly believe University degrees aren't worth what they use to be. The quality of education I received at university was sub par to what I got doing an apprenticeship.
Universities do not deserve the monopoly on degrees they currently enjoy, I would not pay 9250 GBP for my studies, but having lived in Germany, I wasn't facing that dilemma. I would argue that most of the times, university degrees do not really translate into valuable skills when you're working later on, even if you consider softskills
I think one of the main issues with uni education is the lack of investment. In Scotland our tuition is payed by the govt, our unis are given grants so that they can improve the facilities, many common graduate sector companies(mainly referring to STEM) are subsidised allowing them to grow and recruit more graduates, students (such as myself) from low income households are given a limited bursary and a loan, those combined gives me enough money to pay my living costs without stressing too much, but not enough to spend frivilously which is imo where it should be. The problem with "over-qualification" is more that we aren't investing money into our industries, "too little jobs" rather than "too many graduates". There are ways to create jobs and business that the UK govt are just completely ignoring and have been ignoring for 10 years now. Another issue is the availability of alternate types of further education such as apprenticeships which got almost no mention in school and which many companies refuse to use.
Although the majority will insist it can't be free, we should DEFINITELY make them interest free. And literally just make them pay back the fees alone.
Hello everyone :) I am from Switzerland and spent one year abroad in South-Wales. So I kinda know the british education system but not perfectly. I want to tell you about how it is done where I come from and why I believe it is the wrong question to ask wether Unis should be free or not. In Switzerland over half of all students who have finished their "mandatory school time" will start an apprenticeship. This usually happens when you are around 15 or 16 years old. A big difference to the Uk is that you will properly work in a business/workshop for at least 3 days a week and spend 1 or 2 days in school which teaches you more things you have to know about your profession. After an apprenticeship you cannot go to Uni no, but you can go to a special kind of college for one year and get a diploma (you can also be hardcore and do it on the side of the regular apprenticeship). The diploma allows you to go to a "practical kind of Uni" called Fachhochschule. There you do not need a Masters degree to be valued by businesses - a bachelor is usually enough. Many times someone with the background of an apprenticeship and a Fachhochsschule degree is more attractive to businesses and companies as they already have quite a lot of experience compared to someone who went to college for 3-4 years and then went on to study at Uni for another 5 years never having had a "proper" job. Uni and Fachhochschule cost around the same amount. One semester is about 750-1000 Swiss Francs which is not too much compared to the average income. It is affordable. But not that many people even want to go to Uni as doing an apprenticeship and just keeping on working on the job is a fine option. You also have other possibilites to gain further diplomas etc.
I think they needs to be a much bigger push on stem apprenticeships they are just as good as a degree
Considering that I’ve just paid £9250 for some PowerPoint slides and a chance to maybe email a lecturer, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say maybe I’m not getting my money’s worth
It should be free for the jobs we really need or the government should pay off the tuition fees for entering a certain jobs which are in demand. Nursing degrees should be 100% payed for once they enter the career.