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@Aleksi
I am a student studying architecture in scotland so i pay £1800 a year for a six and a half years. I have a 'maintenance' loan of almost £3,500 a year, which doesnt even cover my rent.
Fortunately I have savings and my parents help me out as well so im able to get by. If i didnt, I would not be able to do this course. There is NO TIME to work and no part time student job will pay enough over holidays to cover costs.
Under the new system I would be in £90k debt after finishing my course.
Raising fees will have no short term effects. It will take 20 years for the money to be paid back to government. Furthermore government is still putting the money up in the first place (through the student loans company)its now just being moved to a different balance sheet.
The two things I am most angry about are the level of cuts and the deception by the lib dems.
They are intelligent people, fully aware of the level of shit we were in before they got elected. They knew something had to give. Yet they targeted students, first time voters to vote for them because they said they would not cut fees. Clegg came to my school the day he got elected head of the lib dems with Brian Eno (to get down wit da kids despite noone knowing who was). They signed papers, went to unions and licked assss on a massive scale. If our vote doesnt actually amount to anything, then we are not an actual democracy. If our local MP's listen to what we say and yet go against it...cough simon hughes cough there is no point in voting.