You wait months for a decent set of posts here and then a shed-load come all at once.
One point made by one of the arts and social scientist graduates interviewed for the Guardian is worth bringing up.
An unexpected, but entirely logical consequence of recession is that students will be finding it increasingly difficult to find the term-time employment they need to fund their studies. That's something that needs to be very seriously considered by policy-makers and institutions and I suspect it was never really taken into account when fees were set. It does suggest to me that the chance of the cap on fees being raised in the near future is pretty small.
What I think it will mean is that not only will loan repayments fall as fewer graduates earn the money required to pay them back, but more students will also drop out because they can't afford to pay their way. What's to be done about that?
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