Well it seems that in my essay-writing exploits last night I failed to notice that the graduate endowment is gone (after the SNP drafted its death warrant in June). Ah well, gives me an excuse to get the utterly fabulous February 29th in my blog. What’s more puzzling is that Neo Labour and the Tories (no surprises there) voted against, on the basis that it wouldn’t reduce student poverty. I know that bending the truth (not to mention the expenses rules :p) is in vogue in Neo Labour, but I fail to see how they can claim that reducing the financial burden on every single student by over £2200 (about a fifth of the average total debt per student of £11,000) will not reduce student poverty. We should all be happy - once again we live in a country committed to the principle of free education, and (even better) we no longer live in a country run by Neo Labour con artists.
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I’m of the mind that it should be kept, but go to the universities and not go into the big piggy bank that funds the student grants.
The grant system in this country is broken. Totally broken. Ive got around 12K of student debt, and recieved about 2K of hardship funding on top of that. I also worked every single summer, and through some terms. I never got awarded a student grant, whilst folk I knew got the full whack. It seems all you need these days to get 3-4K of free money a year is to have separated parents, regardless of other circumstances.
I’m sorry, but if ‘getting a degree’ makes anyone more attractive to employers and opens up higher earnings (bullshit), then why is everyone not ‘billed’ at the same rate? Everyone can pay it off the same way, after they are earning, after all!
Broken, broken, broken!
I just wish they’d refund all of those who paid it already!