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Why are the university students rioting in London?
As an American graduate student going back to get my Masters of Library Science degree on a government loan at a state university, I really want to know. Believe me when I tell you that while the proposed jump in tuition is rather steep, it's not that different from what US students pay at public universities once fees have been added into the mix. For example, the tuition rate at the University of California, Berkeley, per semester is $10,781 as opposed to $14,500 in the UK. I'm not preaching from across the Pond. US students do pay more to obtain a university education than their British counterparts. Moreover, they spend years paying off their loans.
Some austerity measures are obviously needed in both the US and Europe, and some groups, no doubt, will feel short changed, but can a government declare bankruptcy, like a person? That's about the only other option. What else do you cut? Retirement age--that's probably going to be done in the US -- from 66 to 68 while a cut that better reflects life expectancy is 70. Defense--in the UK, that's being done; health care--In the US this might happen, but not anywhere in Europe.
I wasn't suggesting that the American way is the only way of doing things, I was only comparing the costs.
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- PandaBearLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
One of the main issues is that many Lib-Dem MPs who form part of the coalition government pledged and signed that they would not raise tuition fees. People elected them on this basis and they have lied and gone along with it. Some people want to eject these MPs from their seats because they were elected under false information.
Edit: And Kieran has it spot on in my opinion :)
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
The students are upset because a lot of them voted Lib-dem purely because the party promised they would scrap tuition fees. In the election however, they came third, and formed a coalition with the Tories (who didn't gain a majority). They have since dropped all the values they claimed they stood for at the election, which leaves their voters feeling a little P*ssed Off. A lot of people feel that it is very undemocratic for two parties that failed to win an election to push such drastic changes to the education system. We are also a more socialist nation than the US, it's the way it has been for many many years, we look after the most vulnerable in our society. This is why people have trouble accepting the Con-dem coalition proposing to price out the poorest students from getting an education (a basic human right), yet not ban the bankers of the institutions propped by tax payer money from receiving bonuses.
- 1 decade ago
You're making an assumption that tge way US universities operate is either the "standard" way of doing things or at least a very good one. I and almost everyone in Britain would say that the US has the absolute wrong view of higher education, its a right, not a privilege or commodity to be bought on the free market.
Austerity measures are needed true, but we've already made too many here. Austerity won't get us growing out of the recession, public building projects and rebuilding the manufacturing industry will, however both of these prospects have been virtually crippled by the coalitions austerity measures.
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