I am with everything you say Aelia,but in addition I also support the notion of the current HECS system that places more of the burden on the student that has managed to obtain a higher income by going to Uni. I was in the first intake year that paid full HECS and it seemed darned inequitous to me that people who started 2 years ealrier than me were paying half the debt that I was accruing [img]smile.gif[/img] . While the HECS annoyed me back then, I could still see the sense in it, and felt that in paying it I had put my bit back in for the fine education I received (whoops - had to edit the i before e except after c thing there
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When I was in Edinburgh in 1999 I got into an argument with one of the locals who wanted me to sign his petition to maintain free education in th UK in protest at a HECS system. He was most upset that I couldn't be convinced to see things from only his point of view. He followed me from the train station into a shoe store on the opposite side of Princess Street complaining all the while that I had the most totally closed mind that he had ever met
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