[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.