I’m Chris Jenkinson, the Academic Affairs Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union.
Posted in Economics, Education, Student politics on Sep 20th, 2008
The lack of funding for higher education is not solved simply by raising the cap on tuition fees, as the Economist believes. If the cap were raised to £7,000, an average student may end up owing around £25,000. A key lesson of the current financial crisis must be not to take on unmanageable debt. Putting [...]
Posted in Education, National politics, Student politics on May 28th, 2008
Before 1997 universities were funded through government taxation, largely because the universities claimed (rightly or wrongly) that they provided a useful public benefit and were spending taxpayers’ money wisely. Successive governments trusted them, and let them get on with the business of providing higher education. The general consensus has been that universities were underfunded, particularly [...]
Posted in Education, National politics on May 27th, 2008
Another review of the Liberal Democrats’ policy on higher education funding has come up and it’s vital that we maintain our commitment to higher education being accessible to all regardless of background. With an increasingly debt-averse society, it’s clear that the only way to do that is with access to education funded through general taxation.
There’s [...]
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