Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Eighteen months on

And what have we done!  Not happy with making us pay a third more - we now have to find the whole cost of undergraduate courses.  Students from this year will have to pay up to £9000 a year - that's £27,000 for a Bachelor degree.  Yes, they don't pay for it until they leave university but how many people will want to do that.

I have gone for the postgraduate option in my latest foray int gaining knowledge - because that is cheaper, not necessarily because it's the best thing for me to do, but because in order to study in a structured way and get feedback on my skills/knowledge it's more achievable.  I don't want to argue too loudly or someone may notice and put up post grad courses as well.  Deterring people from studying at a time when we need to update skills annually is detrimental to the UK economy - surely someone in power must see this and understand it!