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**vaalmerruutel** · 07-15-2012, 07:49 PM

Until a decade or so ago anyone could go to university in the UK (with the right grades ofc) and they didn't have to pay for tuition, they were also given a grant to pay for accomodation/food/books etc if their parents didn't earn that much. Then came student loans, then the grants disappeared, and then came tuition fees.

How exactly students leaving university in debt is a good thing for poor people, I have no idea. Are you sure you've thought this through?

there were considerably fewer students back then.

http://www.ucas.ac.uk/about_us/media...es/2010/210110

In 1999 there were 334,594 accepted applicants. Ten years later in 2009 there were 481,854 - an increase of 44% (see table 5). This represents an increase of 25,227 (5.5%) on entry for 2008. There was an overall increase in the number of applicants of 8.7%. Applicants aged 20 and under showed a 6.9% increase.

07-15-2012, 07:49 PM	#19
vaalmerruutel Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	Until a decade or so ago anyone could go to university in the UK (with the right grades ofc) and they didn't have to pay for tuition, they were also given a grant to pay for accomodation/food/books etc if their parents didn't earn that much. Then came student loans, then the grants disappeared, and then came tuition fees. How exactly students leaving university in debt is a good thing for poor people, I have no idea. Are you sure you've thought this through? there were considerably fewer students back then. http://www.ucas.ac.uk/about_us/media...es/2010/210110 In 1999 there were 334,594 accepted applicants. Ten years later in 2009 there were 481,854 - an increase of 44% (see table 5). This represents an increase of 25,227 (5.5%) on entry for 2008. There was an overall increase in the number of applicants of 8.7%. Applicants aged 20 and under showed a 6.9% increase.
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