http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/01/student-protest-attacks-free-education-to-draw-thousands?CMP=share_btn_gp
There is little that is more important than an Education (setting aside health and housing). I passionately believe that Education is a basic right, and that every individual who wants to learn, is able to learn with no "cost" restrictions. I find it appalling that our Government does not support our students.
At present, students have to repay the loans that total a staggering £36,000 or more (depending on the number of years study), and the less well off can supplement their loans with maintenance grants. Without this grant I would not have been able to return to university as a mature student, to achieve my BA(Hons) Degree, and my daughter, who is currently studying Physics, may have decided that the costs were too much of a burden for her. Neither I, nor her father could have afforded to supplement her university expenses. It would have been impossible.
This is the crunch. Ordinary working people could not afford to give their children the best opportunities in education. It would be a travesty to hinder young peoples' education, their careers, their whole futures in this way. We would be taking so many steps back into the past, it is totally unacceptable.
If these cuts are allowed to be made, where does that leave us all? Do we really want a future ignorant society, a society that does not give its people opportunities to learn from a wide range of subjects in all fields. Denying education to those who have less money will affect every aspect of our lives. For me, it is unthinkable.
I cannot support a government who fails to see the importance of an education system that is inclusive of every individual who chooses to learn.
