DO our students in UK deserve free university education? Or should they be made to pay the annual £9,000 introduced by the current government?
In so doing, the coalition government argued that they had inherited an almost bankrupt country from Labour, and that charging students this much money is the only way available to them to sustain top-class university education that rivals what is provided by universities in US.
That argument is fine, only if the government truly has no money.
However, so much money appears to be available, but the government is rather unwilling to use it to support university education since it seems to have other priorities which, in their view, are much more important!!
As a mere example, over the past few years the UK government has spent approximately 20 billion pounds on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and 200 million pounds on the war in Libya.
Since UK has an average annual number of 450,000 students entering universities, it becomes clear that if those war billions were properly spent on subsidising university education, then they would have fully paid for this annual students number for almost 50 years (at the new annual tuition fee rate of £9,000).
Besides, who believes that those wars were actually needed by Britain in the first place?
They were, and still are, surrounded by many controversies with no apparent or tangible benefit to us. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and the Taliban had never posed a threat to UK!!
We should solve our domestic priorities first, before jumping to helping other countries. Doing it this way will be much fairer, and will much appreciated by the now suffering British people.
In so doing, the coalition government argued that they had inherited an almost bankrupt country from Labour, and that charging students this much money is the only way available to them to sustain top-class university education that rivals what is provided by universities in US.
That argument is fine, only if the government truly has no money.
However, so much money appears to be available, but the government is rather unwilling to use it to support university education since it seems to have other priorities which, in their view, are much more important!!
As a mere example, over the past few years the UK government has spent approximately 20 billion pounds on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and 200 million pounds on the war in Libya.
Since UK has an average annual number of 450,000 students entering universities, it becomes clear that if those war billions were properly spent on subsidising university education, then they would have fully paid for this annual students number for almost 50 years (at the new annual tuition fee rate of £9,000).
Besides, who believes that those wars were actually needed by Britain in the first place?
They were, and still are, surrounded by many controversies with no apparent or tangible benefit to us. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and the Taliban had never posed a threat to UK!!
We should solve our domestic priorities first, before jumping to helping other countries. Doing it this way will be much fairer, and will much appreciated by the now suffering British people.
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