Higher! Higher!

It's come to my attention this morning that the government and university's are conflicting on major policy.

Today, a survey has come out saying that many university's would (if given the option) double tuition fees. This means that graduates would come out of university with £32,000 of debt, and thats the students that stay. There were 4% less applicants when the tuition fees went from £1000 to £3000, so there would be even less with another rise of fees.

The worst bit about all this is that in 2001 David Blunkett said there will be no top-up fees.

"I've made my position clear over the past two years that I am against top-up fees. But I can now make the government's position clear. There will be no levying of top-up fees in the next parliament if we win the next election."

Yet 2 years later they tripled the cost of university fees and with another proposed hike in tuition fees what does the government have in store?

It strikes me that the government are not doing great at following their aims of trying to get everyone to university if they want it rather than financial circumstances dictating whether someone can go or not.

Especially in the current financial situation, putting students into massive amounts of debt. £15,000 is the current minimum amount of debt for you to file bankrupcy, with increased tuition fees you'd have enough debt to file bankrupcy twice over.

We're constantly been told that debt is bad, but we're teaching our students to get into debt, and not small debt, huge amount!

Frankly, i'm glad that i'll be at university this year, tuition fee's don't change dramatically for students already there, however i do feel for the people who are going next year, apparently we can put a price on education.