How Sez Sees It

When I left college six years ago I was excited to be going off to university.  The university I was going to was brilliant and building a good reputation after becoming a stand alone uni from somewhere else.  There were pleanty of places at the uni and I know that many people were able to get in as an insurance choice or clearing.  This week, that same university is having to turn away even some insurance places and there is no chance of it going into clearing. Yes the reputation of this particular uni is even better now than it was before, but the reason this uni and so many like it are inundated with applicants this year is because more people are determined to attend before the fees go up in 2012.  This is the main issue, but the figures are just crazy. Currently there are 189,992 A-Level students eligible for 29,409 vacancies.  There is no chance that the majority of these people will be able to get into uni this year and they may be put off by higher f...

Today it was announced that with the increase in fees to £6000-£9000 a student can expect to pay back three times as much as they borrowed.  On top of that no universities have yet stated that they will charge the minimum fees with the average being around £7500.  Oxford and Cambridge have plans to help the poorest students out by keeping their fees at the current £3000 but everyone else will have to pay £9000. How could this ever encourage people to take up university places?  We will suffer as a nation as a result.