Nov 24, 2010 13:21
Feeling very conflicted about tuition fees.
I don't think they should exist, and that instead useful high-standard degrees should be freely available to people based on merit.
However I have the uncomfortable feeling that it's not going to be possible for me to come up with a definition of "useful" that doesn't exclude most non-vocational courses and more problematically a definition of "merit" that doesn't exclude, well, me.
Because if I'm excluding the middle-class kids that just want to hang around in school for an extra three years, why should I include people who are doing higher education degrees later in life "for fun"?