Cuts and hikes...

While the government are chopping away at our public services, reducing the service we are going to receive. We, the public, are busy scraping together the pennies to try and afford the rise in VAT, tax, inflation... you get my point.

Perhaps one of the most controversial of price rises, is University tuition fees. After Nick Clegg's, now notorious pledge to cut fee's, if he were to get into power, the price to further your education could rise from three thousand pounds to over nine thousand.

The theory from the coalition government is that the new payment model will make it fairer to all students and ensure that a degree keeps it's worth, rather than every Joe Bloggs having one, thus making them worthless.

I see the argument. With over half a million applicants scrabbling to get onto courses last year, you can see why there needs to be a change.

But surely making it to University should be based on your ability to succeed once you're there. Not on whether you can afford to be there?

If there needs to be a change, then raise the standard.

If you haven't got the grades, you can't go to University. It's no different to the real world. If you aren't good enough for a job, you won't get it.

Universities are fast becoming businesses rather than educational institutions and the sooner the focus switches back to education and not funding, the better.

There are changes needed, no doubt. But enforcing anyone who wants to go to University to leave with a debt of up to thirty thousand pounds. It's hard to see the benefits there. (unless of course your looking after the countries finances)