PLANS by the coalition Government to raise the cost of tuition fees to up to £12,000 a year in some cases have been condemned by, among others, Michael Heaver, chairman of Young Independence (youth branch of the UK Independence Party).
I agree that UKIP’s policy of supporting the abolition of tuition fees and bringing back student grants is the only realistic one.
It is fundamentally wrong that those who go to university come out with such huge amounts of debt.
We should scrap targets and only those who really need to go to university should. Importance should be placed on increasing apprenticeships and technical courses, which prepare the student for the workplace, rather than non-degrees from second-rate universities, which help no one.
Dave Brothers, UK Independence Party, Durham.
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