Quote Originally Posted by tibilicus View Post
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8263672.stm

Any thoughts on this? Should education cost or should it be free? How do we all feel about the current education system, both higher education and other education?

Personally I have no problem with paying for university. If paying means the research quality goes up and I can expect a better degree as a result of it then why shouldn't I have to pay?

Any thoughts on the current education system at the minute as well? Any one else think the governments aim of 50% to university is also unrealstic and could potentially break the system?

Let's discuss people.
It's clearly too expensive, £30,000 of dept before you start work is stupid. Dept got us into this mess, more is not getting us out. So, cut places instead; close the old Polytechnics or just cut their funding to the bone.

The most important thing is that intellegant people from poor backgrounds go to university, otherwise academia becomes the preserve of the rich once more.