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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Perhaps Students should pay full price just like everyone else,,,,,
I’d rather see students submit receipts for the items and services they purchase which aid their studies. Receipts that if accepted, would result in a discount given against their university tuition fees costs…
Without student discount cards, companies and services who presently provide student discounts would end up receiving higher revenues streams if these items and services to students are essentials towards their educational requirements…
So these companies would end up paying higher proportions of tax to the government purse, this would help offset the cost of subsidising university fees.
It would seem a fairer option on the rest of society including the young people who don’t go to university and already pay taxes,,,, It would also give young students, life lessons in accounts, personal financial management and what to expect “once they enter the real world”…..
We have and older population who mostly started contributing towards our countries finances from the age of 16 to 18 who are now being told they must work longer with the raising retirement age.
While at the same time we have a subsidised student population who are not actively contributing towards the counties finances until they enter their 20’s.
These young adults are also given an option not to repay the countries investment in them, should they not earn over a certain financial threshold when they eventually start contributing to the very system that has supported their subsidised further education.
This situation is helping cause the consequence whereby everybody in society is now expected to work longer regardless of whether they, were or are, fortunate enough to take an option of indulging in further education.
We need well educated people of that there is no doubt,,,,, I’m certainly not against what can be gained by society as a whole for giving young people the chance of further education ….
But the need to balance the equation must be to the benefit all of society, if all of society is being expected to pay for it!
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