UK cost of learning crisis: New threats to students' futures? 

She's right to ask for a refund for the part of education she didn't receive! Since one has to pay to go to uni, it's only fair to expect the service to be comprehensive.

The issue is with the Student Loans Company which runs the lending programmes. They are free to increase the interest rates at any time, even if you have signed fixed rate contract. Last year my rates were changed without a letter and added 5 years to my repayments. This is a government organisation so it’s any easy way to generate extra taxes.

To be fair, refund is a good start to make a good impression not only for national students but also for the international students since uk gets huge numbers of students every year. Like he said north of england is just reliant on students for their livings.

A degree is not a guarantee of your career success, you couldn’t ask for refund once you can’t find a good job after your study.

My son is a British student but he rejected offers from UCL and Manchester for universities in Hong Kong. It is too expensive to study in the UK.

We cannot all study in London and we cannot all be artists

My degree fee were less than 10k for three years. I graduated in 2011. If I graduated 3 years later I would pay around 30k for the exactly the same degree. So, triple the cost for exactly the same degree. I don’t see how that’s fair.

Avoid as they say the arty farty subjects there are no job prospects. Please take my advice. These departments need to be closed down!!!!Don't go to university if you cannot become a qualified teacher, engineer or doctor

Nordic, German and French universities usually don't charge fees. In such a case studying is an enjoyable and less risky experience. But, where students invest thousands of dollars/pounds, then the financial burden is carried forward. Also, apart from the top 5 or 7 UK Universities, others don't actually help students develop skills. What is the point of getting a degree if there is zero skill development and skill deficits in the economy persist? Not worth investing time or money!! Better opt for a polytechnic.

Presumably the costs were known beforehand the decison had already been taken....am I missing something?

The debt doesn’t even feel real. I don’t feel the weight of it

I finished my master degree when Covid was well over and we were allowed to meet. My uni decided to keep all lectures online. I feel scammed because I didn’t get the chance to meet my peers and network. What’s the benefit of going if you can’t get good lectures and make friends?

Social services, social life’s are definitely getting blocked by financial services requirements.

Fees were 9.000£ for so long? universities will broke if someone does not cover the increase that the students are not covering right now.

Median salary is $12000 or more ... I mean isn't there a survey done in the UK given the title of the video is about UK students?

I graduated last year in Financial Sciences and got an upper second class honours 67% and have been unable to find a job and now stuck with £80K in debt.

That was the reason I did quit when I was at the beginning of the stage 2 in CSM Fine art.

All my friends that went to university are now tenants of mine. 😂

Parental support is very ambitious word choice, there’s a huge difference between providing for young adults and paying for young adult expenses!

The first speaker is ironically asking for a refund 'due to strikes'- in her own words, while flaunting the P flag on her left ear. Millions of hours have been lost to university and public protests, on an issue that the institutes have little control over. She has not only been part of the problem, but also made fellow students lose valuable lecture time. Typical hypocrisy.

They should give her the refund but she should give her degree back

Bro ya dont need go education way. .i got 3 gcse - 1 D and 2E. Just stupid papers. I working brick layer making mad money. Am stacking geeez ma bro

I dont agree with the argument of higher solary in arts industry. When i went to college, i graduated with a portfolio that helped me to get into uni. But when graduating as a 3d aniamtion bachelor, i had nothing but paper. We did so little that could be used later to get a job. Throughout the year, instead of being taught through lectures or being supoerted, we needed to depend on youtube tutorials. And wasted hours on coding and vfx modues when all of us were in there to progress as 3d artis in environment or character or 3d animation. And just before uni closed becasue of covid, we were told that the whole course will be remodeled for next students to fit more what we expected. So we colplained and had to suffer for 3 years so now to be told thibgs could be changed and they are being changed but for next 1st years 😤 so i have 70k debt, no portfolio, no job and if all i needed to learn in uni was on youtube, i should have just gone to youtube uni for free.

What about public and private settlements and public fairness?!

No way would I ever go to university today. So not worth it. Saddle yourself with a huge debt? No thanks.

Having a degree doesn’t garantee a job even if the job in question requires a degree.

What is the real cost of a student for the unversity?

Increase the student loan then, remember borrow it and no need to return, all my friends never return it don’t affect you

What massive debt? Still cheap, being subsidised by foreigners. Too much complaining

She got a degree, there’s no value of service other than a degree?!

Im going to assume here she did a degree in like 'Art' or 'History' or another degree which generally, unless your family has the contacts or you can be sure to establish them... is pointless, unless you settle to be a teacher. Im not sure what refund she wants, if shes not in higher paid work, she wont even have to pay for the degree she physically signed up for. Nobody has actually sold her anything, she found the course, and applied. It's not the Universities fault that she didn't do her homework. This is honestly like trying to return a car 4 years later because the sunroof wont open.

Education sector is different to universities and government

Let’s be real there are some people who make more money from a skill set that require a degree. Skills that pay the bills that people don’t want to do ie plumber, electrician…… I attended University in The UK back in 2010-2013 and I am American.

Virtue signalling by the lady with the painted ear... No place for it in this video

Try the cost if usa universities . Almost bankrupted my mum and dad . In 1980 it 150 thousand

What's on her ear?

International students in China, suffered most related to medical studies.

If you`re enrolling on a mickey mouse BA degree, don't be surprised if you can't find a decent paying job at the end of your stint, by which time you`ll probably be massively in debt. Sadly, you`d be much better off acquiring a universally valid skill set after leaving school.

Sounds like America. And increasingly, the whole world.

You go girl! Hope you get a refund!

No comments.😅

How does raising your consciousness pay my bills?

Thanks for painting your ear for Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤

What’s on that one ladies ear?

Viva Palestine.

Paint your ear and after complaining cannot find a job because her degree is not good 😂😂👂

Still with this cost, students come here for study and govt don't want to give jobs to immigrants while they wants to give aslyum to illegal immirants. Reducing the higher salary for work visa would be a good thing to these students, atleast give jobs to these students than getting more people from abroad.

I 🙏🏼 I win the lottery

Luckily my kids have an EU passport and will be able to attend university for free!

The real gripe is to blame the British government and political leaders that have supported macroeconomic/trade policies such as Brexit that have destabilize the economy causing increased competition for jobs among college graduates. In a society with rigid social mobility, prospective college students from working-class backgrounds will find obtaining a college degree ever more elusive!

No refund will be given. Too bad, so sad. Such entitled youth.