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He's put the threshold up on repayments for student loans.
Now you have to earn £15,000 a year to make any repayments. (Instead of £10,000).
Now I pay nothing again. But he'll not get my vote.
> Scuse me; I need to nip away from my desk in order to laugh heartily
> at the irony of kevstar making this statement...
Curse you Light and your quickness :-D
> Student loans eahh, well like the pensioners I think you lot are bieng
> so unfair, why. Well first of all you don't have to pay nothing back
> untill your on a wage capable of covering it. It's interest free, and
> it allows you when your not working, to not have to pay anthing back
> untill you get that job.
It is not interest free. currently it stands at above the rate of inflation.
EDIT: My mistake; I forgot; It is interest free until you finish your studies. And it currently stands at 9% per annum.
> A student with a 2:1/1st degree from a top 10 uni is going to earn far
> over that threshold anyway with their first job.
I feel in a few years time this won't be the case. There are going to be too many graduates, and because of this, the wages for them will lower.
I only have a three grand loan. I hated uni, as I spent more time working (in Tesco) to support myself after the LEA decided that even though all my parents money was tied up in their morgage they could afford to keep me. They couldn't, my student loan covered my rent and tutition fees and left me with £20 to spend. In the end I left and did a three year apprenticeship with an IT company. Although I still don't earn that much, I'm far more usefull to the company than any graduate. I even had one the other day who could explain the algebra calculations etc that happen in a processor, but couldn't use FDISK.
No practical skills.
>> No practical skills.
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You're generalising a bit there, don't you think? Or is this a case of "students just laze about drinking and spending my money which I earnt good n proper and the government GRRRR THE GOVERNMENT just gives it to them lazy no skilled fools who drink beer all day every day"
I work at my course. My parents can afford to support me. And I spend time wasting. Not really going to apologise for that, and I get really angry at the generalist opinion of non-graduates.
Stop buying £4 Ginsters sandwhiches every day and go work for 20 hours a week. Twunts
To be fair I get easier in Scotland, I probably couldn't have gone to Uni if I had to pay a couple of grand every year.