The news has come out that most universities will charge the top level £9,000 next year. Some are claiming that this undermines to Government's position on tuition fees, I don't agree.
Now that students are more focussed on the real cost of a degree course they will also take more interest in the perceived value of those courses too. It is understandable that no university wants to admit that it isn't as good as the top universities, setting a tuition fee less than the maximum might be seen as just such an admission. But potential students have always graded their preferred universities and an institution that gets a significant number of its students through clearing will not be charging £9,000 for very long.
The first year of the new system isn't going to tell us very much, it will be interesting to see how many universities are still this bullish this time next year.
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-The news has come out that most universities will charge the top level £9,000 next year. Some are claiming that this undermines to Government's position on tuition fees, I don't agree.-
I would like to carefully raise two questions-
Do you agree with the statement that Vince Cable could be perceived by the voting public of going back on the Lib Dem election promise of not raising tuition fees?
And whilst you are trying not to draw too many similarities from this situation and a rather more localised issue which shall not be mentioned as it draws upon a rather emotive issue with some readers.
Would you concede that it is indeed disappointing for the voting millions that the coalition does not work and that whilst the AV MAY not be the way forward, some shake up of the voting process needs to be addressed to stop the danger of another uncomfortable and unworkable coalition government?
I respectfully look forward to your personal and not necessarily party viewpoint.
Mrs Markham
I await with some interest, the answers posted by Mr Cleverly regarding the aforementioned questions.
I have been quietly reading some of the previous blogs posted by Mr Cleverly including the infamously unprofessional comment regarding Simon Hughes on the 18th August 2010. And I must say that I cannot help but draw some comparisons with Vince Cable re tuition fees and a certain hospital which I will also leave nameless for fear of having my posting removed.
I also must say that your observations regarding the current Government not working together as we all hoped are spot on. It is a shame that the forthcoming referendum on the AV system is being championed by part of the coalition (Libdems) and damned by the rest (Conservatives). Surely to preserve what little credibility the current Coalition Government have, they could at least agree a form of voting and present a united front that could be put to a referendum, rather than the usual confused messages that we are coming to expect?
Maybe we the concerned public are not getting the service we expect from our Civil Servants? And yes they are Servants of the people not themselves or their respective parties.
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