Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Continuing my on-going series of qualms regarding university, I arrive at the sole substance that fuels all our university experiences ... Money, or to use the clinical term; fees.
Obviously, they have been the bane of our existences since before university. Most of us have been attending educational facilities since the ages of three or four.
Ergo, parents have been, in their opinions, and sometimes mine, swindled out of large amounts of money for many years now. However, even baring this in mind, the cost of modern day British university fees is enough to even make Richard Branson wince.
This is because, as of 2012, the British government decided to transfer much of the cost of courses from the state to students. Which resulted in fees’ tripling, that is not an exaggeration that is numerical fact.
This enrages me beyond this universe, as I highly doubt many people in the House of Commons or the House of Lords have ever had to worry too much about money. Labour’s Gareth Thomas labelled this rise as a ‘tragedy for a whole generation of young people’.
Now the first round of students whom have had to pay this amount of money have finished their first year. According to a study done by the UK’s Telegraph newspaper 58.4 per cent of these students feel that said year has not been worth the money. This study was also only done on home students, therefore I shudder to think what international students think, as they pay anything ranging from £1,000-£5,000 (BD604-3,020) more. This same article also states that ‘Universities found applicants for every, and any, course. Equine science was a hit, golf management an unmitigated success’.
The article goes on to state that this is no longer the case as many see the fees and head straight for the hills to delve into the world of work.
