Students and university staff are protesting government plans to allow universities to charge up to 9,000 pounds (about $14,500) per year in tuition fees -- a substantial rise from the current cap of 3,000 pounds (about $4,800).
What am I missing here? Are all the universities in England on par tuition-wise with Bridgewater State? A 300% increase is a rough pill to swallow though. Haven't they heard of the American way of passing off huge rate hikes as a series of a dozen smaller ones in succession?
Defenders of the plan say that universities will not have to charge the maximum they're allowed to, but an education policy expert told CNN they will.
I can't imagine anyone having so little respect for the intelligence of the public to try and slide "well they don't HAVE to charge the max amount" by anyone.
post by sir coughsalot at Nov 10,2010 3:10pm
good for them i hope they burn down the whole fucking builidng
Everything that was secured since the industrial revolution enabled the masses to fight collectively for themselves has slowly been eroded since the last openly admitted empires collapsed about the time period of ww2-Vietnam.
Today we have shadow empires and I don't doubt that the loan industry works as a cartel fixing prices and increasing rates steadily.
Although I feel for the brits as they pay a hell of a lot of tax dollars for subsidized college education, something I wouldn't mind paying higher taxes for.
and you are very correct in your assumption that all colleges will charge the maximum, just like when Mass redid its health-care the insurance rates on average rose to the maximum allowed.
