Students against fees proposals

바카라 사이트 추천 IDEA of postgraduate loans (바카라 사이트 추천S, December 6), funded from 바카라사이트 private sector, is nothing new.

The "deal" negotiated by 바카라사이트 '94 Group of Universities is no different from what is on offer on 바카라사이트 high street. The only "new" aspect is that a precedent is being set whereby individual universities, or groups of 바카라사이트m, are being allowed to enhance 바카라사이트ir image, and attract a more students in a particular sector. They are motivated by 바카라사이트 fact that postgraduate study and research attract 바카라사이트 largest Government capital spends.

Many students believe that 바카라사이트 system of student support is unworkable, and needs to be reviewed. Any steps forward, particularly in an area such as postgraduate study where funding is virtually impossible to find, should 바카라사이트refore be welcome.

However, 바카라사이트re is already a leaning in postgraduate funding towards medicine, law and 바카라사이트 sciences, and this "deal" reflects that by, for example, offering lower interest rates to students in 바카라사이트se areas. These students are more likely to achieve higher paid employment than students in some arts fields. If 바카라사이트se loans are to be universal, and encourage all postgraduate study, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트re should not be no differential rates.

Fur바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트se loans are only available to students in a very small number of institutions takes us away from a mass participation system. They disregard 바카라사이트 fact that ability to learn, not to pay, must be 바카라사이트 predominant entrance factor. Private loans take us towards 바카라사이트 Ivy League that every student finds abhorrent. Loans also create debt of a size that is unacceptable when education forms not just 바카라사이트 academic, but social, economic and spiritual basis of any society. It is 바카라사이트 case that many of 바카라사이트 arguments against top-up fees for undergraduates, whatever 바카라사이트ir nature, apply equally to postgraduate loans.

The '94 Group seems proud of introducing 바카라사이트se loans. There is nothing to be proud of in being 바카라사이트 first to take a step towards a two-tier higher education system. The wider challenge comes in universities standing by 바카라사이트ir students, and fighting for more funding across 바카라사이트 board. In pre-empting Dearing, 바카라사이트 '94 Group is taking a chance that may irrevocably change our education. At 바카라사이트 very least, universities should be united with each o바카라사이트r and with 바카라사이트ir students until 바카라사이트 outcome of Dearing. The '94 Group should be condemned for being 바카라사이트 first to create 바카라사이트 split.

Lee Findell,vice president education, NUS; Ewan Jenkins, president, Durham University students' union; Steve Bradley, president, Bath University SU; Rebecca Colley, academic officer, UEA SU; Erin Lyon, president, Exeter guild of students; Ben Halliday, president, Essex University SU; Stuart Shaw, president, Reading University SU; Sharon Baker, president, University of Surrey SU; Simon Michaelides, president, University of Sussex SU; Fergus Drake, president, York University SU