Have you guys heard about this? They attacked the royal family's car. It's due to a rececnt bill that passed to TRIPLE student tuition in the UK to help pay off the deficit.

Are you serious? Most students have a hard enough time paying for college as it is and your gonna triple their tuition? That wouldn't fly in the US. What do you guys think.

US citizens are lazy.

They/we will pay whatever the Gov. mandates.

Lots of verbal complaining but, you won't see protests like we had in the 60's and early 70's.

You really don't think anything would happen here if college tuition was tripled? People already have trouble paying for college as it is now.

thats crazy. it seems like they could find a better way to fix the deficit than to tax the hell out of students. that seems like it would keep more kids from getting a higher education which keeps them from gettin higher payin jobs which means they pay out less in taxes. not too smart

Sure don't believe anything would happen.
The last time regular folks protested, WTC Seattle, they got beat down.

The Illegals protested in 2006. After that, they have been realllly quiet.

Thats exactly what I was thinking. It just seems stupid.

I'm sure if they tripled the tuition you would hear about the UofA mall burning.

brittain pays quite high taxes to cover their way of life already, so I understand the outrage, but its not a raised tax, its a raised TUITION CAP,,,(something Im not even sure the US HAS)

comparatively to the US, brits can pay up towards fifty percent in income taxes but that warrants them a national healthcare system and very low rate of school tuition (the cap was five thousand, a figure that barely would cover a semester at a community college here in the US), the cap(maximum that can be charged) will now be 15,000



Id love to see a cap placed on our tuition, than our situations would be more comparable,,,,but for now its kind of an apples and oranges comparison

Thats laughable. Barely cover a semester at community college. I am only 25. When I went to LSU tuition for 15 semester hours was about 2.5k. That is a huge state school. 1 year was 5k. When I transfered to my home towns university it was still a state school. MSU. My tuition was around 1.6k a semester.

community colleges are about as cheap as we have, and they do go lower than 5, I was thinking more of public colleges and universities

the average tuition in the US is here

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/pay/add-it-up/4494.html

Please read. What I listed were state universities and not community colleges. Even the site you posted said most 4 year public universities charge 7.6k a year which still means you saying 5k per semester of community college is laughable.

If they wanted to pay off their deficit they should start by chit canning the Royal family and their outlandish salaries.

ok, so as I have already conceded, community colleges have much more affordable tuitions

but back to my main POINT

the tuition posted for the uk is a CAP or maximum allowed to charge for a tuition

considering their MAXIMUM is still often times equal to or less than our AVERAGE,, makes comparing the two systems like compareing apples and oranges

It is not equal to or less than our average since our average is 7.6k a year. Anyway in the US I thought the state gave money to the University not the other way around

yes, five thousand is less than 7.6 thousand
the five thousand was regardless of living in state or out of state where our average for out of state is nearly 12000

the NEW cap is 15000, which IS more than our average

as far as paying for schooling, the government in the UK covers this charge for full time students who than 'repay' that amount through their taxes once they are working

Yes maybe the old cap. What do they do about scholarships? My state paid for my college. Well the first 4 years of it. Any resident of Louisiana can have their college tuition paid for. You just need to take the courses they ask you to take in High school and get good enough grades and a high enough ACT score. I think it used to be a C average and a 19 on the ACT. It's not hard to get. The better you do the more money they give you for other things.

Our local community supports our community college.

Students pay $81/ credit hour and since it belongs to the University of Maryland system all the credits transfer to any 4 year University of Maryland campus.

There is a private college about 10 minutes away and they charge $331/ credit hour..

This is about making the right choices.

If you want to be a teacher why would you pay $331/ credit hour for 4 years at the private school when you could pay $ 81/ credit hour for 2 years at the community college transfer to UM College Park and still pay less than $331/ credit hour for 2 years?

Why would you pay at all when your state will pay for you?
All joking aside you usually have more class choices, better teachers, and better facilities at a state college. Companies look at where you graduate even if it's for a teaching degree.

There's usually no issue with taking the beginning classes at community colleges, then transferring to a state college. You're still graduating with your degree at the state college, but getting core classes out of the way at a cheaper price. Plus, for a teaching degree, the University of MD which he mentioned is a good school for that.

Maybe so but some degrees core classes are no walk in the park. Core classes for my major included calculus, physics, circuits, just to name a few. Yes I mean core. Calculus for example was the first required math of 6 classes I had to take and it was a prereq for many others.