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I think that there is a need to pay fees for university education, primarily because the amount of people attending university has reached such a level that it can no longer realistically fully state subsidised.
However it should be means tested, so those who are poor don't have to pay fees, and those that can afford to do so.
But more than that i think the whole approach to education should be reviewed - many people do not need to go to university - i spent 3 years in Bristol, and nothing i did there has any bearing on what i do now, not has it ever helped me advance in any job. I now employ people myself, and the ones who have a decent school education, and then have learnt on the job and real world experience tend to be far better than those whose only experience and knowledge are those they have parrot learned at Uni.
Universities are great institutions, but we need to lower the amount of people going needlessly, and then we can return to a level where fees are no longer necessary.