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Education - commodity or righ?
Tomáš Evans
23rd September 2009 at 19:41
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I read in the papers that the Confederation of British Industry says that we ought to raise tuition fees, scrap interest free loans, amongst other equally offensive measures.
It also called for more sponsorship and bursaries from businesses, which would doubtless reinforce the marketisation and commodification of education, that started under Thatcher and carried on under Blair.
Then on the BBC a professor from Buckingham University said that he would like to reduce 3 year courses to
2 years, reducing the costs of living, yet also stated that he was for raising tuition fees, because if we pay for our education and become customers we will value it more,[sounding familiar?]
It is interesting that a University Professor views education as a commodity rather than a fundamental right.
With tuition fees as they stand at the moment, at £3,225 per year, that is £9,675 for a 3 year course, that’s also more than my mum who works two jobs earns in a year.
The CBI called the new top rate of income tax an act of economic vandalism. The CBI’s higher education proposals would be a real act of economic vandalism [as have been the past 30 years] the former was just long overdue.
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on 23rd September 2009 at 19:54, Andrew Fisher said:
Just compare the situation with when Labour got in: no tuition fees, a means-tested grant, and a manifesto commitment against top-up fees.
Now we have all three parties in favour of fees and the cap likely to come off the £3,000 limit next year - whether Labour or Tories win.
There’s a good article about the Lib Dems volte-face on this policy on the AWL website.
It’s quite a leap of logic to make public sector workers and now students suddenly responsible for the banking crisis. There’s more good info on the Nationalise my Student Debt website.