NUS tell students not to Campaign against Government

[Christmas Tree 4679]

Student representatives have been told not to campaign against tuition fee increases in a private memo from the National Union of Students.

 

A leaked document suggests campus leaders should instead hold talks with universities that plan to charge the top rate of £9,000.

 

Publicly the union has opposed increases in tuition fees, and NUS president Aaron Porter has criticised the changes.

 

But the five-page memo to NUS officers on campuses said: "The loan gets written off after 30 years - the vastly increased numbers of graduates that will never pay the loan off are in fact what makes the system relatively progressive."

 

The memo was passed to The Times by a student at the University of Exeter. A source at the NUS said: "This is not a change in direction. We are saying we live in the real world."

 

Couldnt make it up.

[Billy Castell 0]

I'm struggling with the logic of that statement.

[Rob W 0]

he means "progressive" in the economic sense -

[Ayatollah Hermione 13766]

I would like to riot at how fucking useless they are. Like getting blood out of a stone getting solid help off them.

[NJS 4365]

I don't agree with fees for useful courses but hopefully irresponsible decisions to deliberately write-off debt will affect their credit ratings.

[Matt 0]

I don't agree with fees for useful courses but hopefully irresponsible decisions to deliberately write-off debt will affect their credit ratings.

 

It won't. You can move abroad and have it written off under the current system- but there is no way to judge that this is any more a deliberate avoidance act as opposed to natural movement between borders.