tuition fees vote today

I hope everyone contacted their MPs, dusted off their placards and is ready to have their voices (very likely) completely ignored.

As has been noted in the debate today: the vote today represents the most profound change in university funding, and thus the system itself, since the 1920s, and yet the MPs voting will be doing so without having seen the government's white paper on it. 

I feel practically violated from the betrayal we're facing. If the ConDems go ahead with their proposed cuts to education, it will be an enormous step back.

Cultural, intellectual stagnation, here we come.

Comments

[expat divorce]

I agree- this will be a huge step backwards for the UK. Tuition fees are already too expensive thanks to the so-called yop-up fees introduced in 2005.

[danielle]

Of course they don't listen to the voters, they listen to the corporations who want to get their hands on education so they can mold people's minds to their own thinking. When right-wing politicians are in office, their only goal is to defend their friends and ruin the public sector.

[Tikabelle]

Then you'll be just like your former cousins across the pond! /facepalm