Rising university fees: Should English students have to pay for higher education?

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As university fees in England rise, we ask locals if they think students should have to pay for their education. Is the cost of higher education becoming too high for the average family?

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00:00Well, the costs are too high for the average family for certain. Of course, the students

00:08are expected to pay their university fees back when they get an employment, which is

00:12supposed to be higher paid occupations. Whether the government actually recoup that or what

00:17is a different question.

00:19We should make sure that it is affordable and the interest rates are the key one, key

00:23factor, how to ensure that we don't charge them high interest. So eventually the fees

00:30become unmanageable.

00:31I think the cost is becoming too high for the average family. A lot of students are

00:35leaving university with huge debts. And that is, it's sort of, it's having a negative effect

00:40on a lot of students who are now not looking at going towards the traditional A-level university.

00:46They're looking at other, you know, options. And sometimes that can be detrimental. It

00:51affects the, you know, the literacy rates, the education in the area, and that sort of

00:56stops people from achieving.

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