27k plus 3 years living which is gonna be 10k a year i would have thought
+1. This is something people forget - they concentrate on the tuition fees but there's also living costs to consider as part of the student debt.
Students spend most of the week laid in bed because there are only a few lectures they have to attend each week. the rest is alleged homes study.
The entire point is that is that it's meant to be self-directed learning. You have a 'skeleton' from which to develop your own studying. Otherwise it stops being university (originally designed for academia) and it just "school". Besides, not all courses would benefit. I used to have lectures pretty much everyday 9-5. Where would you have added the extra lectures?
...more lectures during the week...cut down the time in university...
Personally, I'd say to reduce the summer holidays - three months per year was an immense amount of time to take off. Not all courses
Speaking to most of them, when you ask why their at university the reply is its for the 'student experience'.
+1 for reducing "unnecessary" degrees. There are degrees in subjects for which it'd have been better to have done apprenticeships. By making lots of mickey-mouse degrees, you decrease the value of a degree. Twenty years ago, it would have been a golden ticket. Now it's more a rite-of-passage.
My problem with it is, it discourages working class from further education, it shouldn't do, but it will
+1. I've always believed university education should be provided on the basis of academic ability, rather than financial ability. There are some very bright people who never went to university but could easily have attained 1:1.
If your gonna go to uni, study a proper degree, that will get you a proper job, and a proper wage.
As above, university was never meant to "provide a wage". You need mathematicians and physicists breaking new ground, developing new theories etc. It's how we arrived at computers. It's how we will solve various scientific problems, some of which may lead to social advancement.
Its not my right to decide, I just dont want to...pay for them to go through uni via my taxes
But people have done this for years - look at the previous generation. They all had a "free education" of the backs of taxpayers. Yet now the current generation suddenly has to pay for the same thing. IMO that's not right. But it's not right to force older generations to "back-pay" for their degrees!