Tuition fees for local young people – fair or unfair?
By alisond2010 | Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 14:45
There’s been mixed response to the tuition fee debacle here in Teddington. Some residents have said that –
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“Too many people go to university”
“We don’t agree with what’s going on, but we don’t condone the violence”
“The government are taking us back to the old class system where only the wealthy can afford to go to uni”
“I don’t know if I will be able to go to university now – what am I going to do?”
“Well, I’m not trained to do anything and how am I going to get a job – and do what?”
What’s your opinion – it is right or wrong and will your children be able to go to university – or you as a mature student?
Local MP Vince Cable wasn’t in his Twickenham constituency surgery last week due to a visit to Moscow so he missed Teddington School pupils planning on going to protest outside his office.
It has been reported by pupils that they were “threatened with exclusion if they left the school premises”. The Lion Road constituency office was quickly patrolled by local police officers "just in case". What are your feelings about this? And after the school’s record results this year will Teddington’s young people be able to get to college and university?
Outside Teddington, our sister site Kingston People shows students from Kingston University demonstrating in the centre of Kingston, again alongside police presence. What do you think of this and also of their photograph of Kingston's MP Ed Davey?
Has Vince Cable’s reputation and safe seat been damaged by his comments about tuition fee? And where does this leave the Twickenham Liberal Democrat Party and overall reputation for the Liberal Democrats as a political party? One Teddington resident posted a comment on The Guardian giving his views - do you agree or not?
On the Esher People website it is reported Esher College student has been excluded after climbing on the roof at Millbank. Do you think this is a fair way to treat a student and what would you do if she was your daughter?
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Vincent Cable has let the side down regarding tuition fees. He may live in an affluent area but it doesn't mean we have any more money for fees than the rest of the country.
My son intends to study at Uni next year and will start his working life with a mill stone round his neck like most other students these days. It's all very well saying too many kids go to uni but because of that employers now 'expect' a degree from everyone.
With a severe lack of jobs, the option is the dole. Frankly an education is more beneficial to the individual and society rather than another more people scrounging off the state on hand outs.
Make fees realistic, these kids are the future and they need the education and skills to make it a success!
By riversidegirl at 11:35 on 05/12/10
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