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Too many students now to abolish fees. No fees were fine when 15% young people went to university. Those days are long gone and the cost of doing this will.be enormous and yet again those that will benefit the most will be the middle and upper classes.
It will do little to get more disadvantaged folk to go to university.So far fro. Being a socialist policy this is a policy designed to get votes from middle class students and there parents. Maybe I'm being a cynic here.
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Selfishly I'd be happy for the abolition of tuition fees. I'd go back to doing various courses with the OU if that happened. I can afford ~£400 a year to slowly plod along to a degree - probably languages next time. Those same courses (a quarter of a year) are £2250 now.
Also having lots of family (nieces, newphews, daughter) that could be going to Uni over the next 15 years it may just happen to benefit them.
Nothing in the Labour manifesto about what would happen to the people who paid the silly fees in the last few years, would they be refunded (and/or debts cancelled0 or just left with piles of debt?