[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Honestly,. I dont get the big fuss over tuition fees. As I understand it you dont even pay anything back until you earn like 30k a year, and even then its pennies per week you pay...is that right?

I udnerstand people being pissed at the libdems though as they completely u-turned and I know LOADS of stuudents who voted for them and hate their guts now

The reason students don't like them is because when you finish UNI once you get a job where the threshold of paying back the loans is reached, you have up to £27,000 at least of debt around your neck before you even start to live your life or even then go for a mortgage.
It is still a now, even moreso, a substantial debt you are left with for just learning.
A figure that will still be taken into account for other mortgage/credit applications too.

I was very fortunate, my Parents saw me through UNI, many others are no way that lucky.

It makes a massive difference when the figure was around only a third of that before 2010.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

The reason students don't like them is because when you finish UNI once you get a job where the threshold of paying back the loans is reached, you have up to £27,000 at least of debt around your neck before you even start to live your life or even then go for a mortgage.
It is still a now, even moreso, a substantial debt you are left with for just learning.
A figure that will still be taken into account for other mortgage/credit applications too.

I was very fortunate, my Parents saw me through UNI, many others are no way that lucky.

It makes a massive difference when the figure was around only a third of that before 2010.

Ah i didnt know it was taken into account for martgages and that

BIB...my parents are doing that for my brother. My dad paid the mortgage off early last year so that if my brother decides to go to uni, theycan remortgage the house to pay it outright

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Ah i didnt know it was taken into account for martgages and that

BIB...my parents are doing that for my brother. My dad paid the mortgage off early last year so that if my brother decides to go to uni, theycan remortgage the house to pay it outright

That is great and he will find that a massive help and relief to him too Vicky.
To walk out of education and UNi with no real debts around your neck is a great thing.

The point is when this govt. raised the threshold too as to when the loans would have to be paid back, they didn't treble that like they did the tuition fees.
For someone just on the threshold, it will still be a burden around their necks and education shouldn't have to be that.

Really pleased for your Brother Vicky,however I myself think it is wrong Parents should even feel the need to do it,especially at the new trebled rate it is at now.