the problem isn't anything to do with rich or poor.
It's a societal failure to understand that higher education is not some right everyone has. It is a right of intellectual priviledge, not financial. If we accepted that, stopped trying to get everyone who can tie their fucking shoelaces together into uni, then we wouldn't have a HE system that cannot be supported by the state.

That, and the tories, of course.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:58, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

the rich poor thing is stupid anyway
when it comes to this. A large proportion of people won't pay up front, but use loans, so it makes no difference what your circumstances are before you go to uni, you are still in the same boat.

My folks are reasonably high income middle-class, and as such I was screwed at uni because I get the max fees (at the time) and minimum loans etc. Poor people were a shitload better off than I was.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:00, Reply)