OpinionPanel Poll: Students desert Lib Dems over fees
OpinionPanel
TweetResearch conducted by OpinionPanel has been documented on the Channel 4 News website.
Download the full OpinionPanel tables.
Have your say: Get rewarded!
Earn £25 in
vouchers
Or £1 per survey in High Street Vouchers
Loading ...Most Recent
-
Binge drinking – blame licensing laws
Wandering the streets of east London at 1am last Friday…
Read more -
Tories equate gay marriage with internet porn
Tories equate gay marriage with internet porn. When you read…
Read more -
The trials of running your own website
I have run Gamespaceuk since its launch back in March…
Read more
-
We Sponsor
-
We're company partners
-
We're on the COI's research framework
-
We sponsor a scholarship for journalism at
Having served in the british army for over 10 years and being made redundent i thought i would go for a change of career so looked into nursing having spent the last 2 years in night school juggling 2 jobs and 3 kids hoping to go to university at the end i was absolutly gutted when the new right got into power with the lib dems not only have they decided to pay me less in benifits THAT DO HELP me and my family stay above the poverty line they then decide to put tuition fees up and totally exclude me from furthering my self how can they say it will help those less off get to university when it has just completly stuffed any chance of me going now due to financial reasons CAMERON listen to the students we are the future so 2 years of studying and juggling all for nothing thanks to the coalition government.
You ask what will be next. Well to be perfectly honest, I would not be surprised if it was the benefits for disability. I personally think that Lib Dems have been put in a really awkward position, if they opposed what Conservatives want to do, the coalition would collapse, and then Conservatives would probably get voted in by themselves. Which of course would be even more terrible than them with LD making a tiny dent in the Conservative plans.
And I think the plan is to put students off from going to university, with all of the people getting pumped out with degrees, all of their degrees are suddenly worth less.
I am very disappointed in this government right now, they are all for themselves and it appears as though that they view though who are from the poor side, are benefit pinching thieves. First the Tution fees and now the EMA system. what will be next because they say it all comes in threes.
I can understand that you wont need to pay anything back until after you earn a certain amount. BUT these fees are becoming ridculus. The coalition Government is scrapping any scheme that was brought in by labour. Have they forgotten that it was our vote that put them there? Do they relise that they are certainly making more problems right now than they are at solving them. IF putting fees up is a way to help this economic depression, I cannot see how it will help, because cleary they havent thought this through. Not everyone is from a well off family. They should step outside and take another look at us students. These fees are putting us off wanting to get a higher education.!!
I think now is a very important time to be pnuhisg a review of this, especially when the Higher Education White Paper is being delayed to no end and that most of the changes we made to provisions being made to those from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds above 6k have been ignored. Offa don’t seem to be putting their oar in much either.It would gain us a lot of respect in the public eye to be pnuhisg the Tories once again on THEIR policy failing and putting the screws on Willetts. Call him out on not wanting a public debate whilst Cable has been honest and open and put forward a graduate tax plan (time to revisit with perhaps a comprehensive graduate tax plan ourselves).Otherwise Labour will continue to make capital on this. I can see Graduate Tax Flyers out at Freshers Fayres across the country, kicking our nuts in.
I was all for the Lib Dems getting into the coalition, because I thought the two parties couldn’t possibly let eachother do anything particularly stupid, given how different their veiws are…. the tuition fee vote was just the first what i anticipate was an example of just how wrong i was about that. can safely say that i am diappointed in the lib dems. they made a promise, a pledge, and they should have stuck to it, instead of deserting the people they promised to protect. we all understand that the county has a huge debt, but the government hasnt saved themselves any money. they will now have to spend millions more on tuition fee loans. which wont get paid back, because the new system means that you will pay even less of the loan back than before…. because that is such a sensible idea obviously. clearly, this has not been thought through. not sure that england has a party worth voting for at the moment, but i wont be voting for the lib dems ever again. the concervatives…. im disappointed but im not sure i could really expect any less from them. wont be voting for them either.
the man upstairs on the 176 to Penge). The real issue that was never debaetd, is that the Browne report has turned Higher education into a market, or perhaps, merely completed a process that has been going on for years under both Tory and Labour governments. It seems that the net result of the Lib Dem intervention to turn tuition fees into effectively a graduate tax, has resulted in a potential drain on the public purse from 2015 (unpaid tuition fees due to students never earning enough to qualify to pay em back), which possibly can only be controlled by reducing numbers in higher education. Which is not something I would think that most Lib Dems would regard as a solution. So yes, we need to reopen the debate and actually debate the real issues this time.