Moderator's note: At the posters' request, I have moved to this new thread a number of posts originally made in a Shooting the Breeze thread about what might 'become unfashionable in a recession'.
DrMoriarty
Must be a slow time for the journalists - assessing students for fees based on their parents incomes is illegal and so will never be reintroduced - for same reasons as assessing children for fees for old folks homes. Government has aleady been very badly burnt on this issue and is fully aware of the legal situation.
Only income that you could assess for student fees is the students own income which is pointless as students cant work full time and the only way fees could be reintroduced is to do one of those student loan schemes they have elsewhere where student pays back money when in full time employment after graduation.
DrMoriarty
I got to thinking about how unfashionable some things might become when listening to the fees debate on the radio.
Must be a slow time for the journalists - assessing students for fees based on their parents incomes is illegal and so will never be reintroduced - for same reasons as assessing children for fees for old folks homes. Government has aleady been very badly burnt on this issue and is fully aware of the legal situation.
Only income that you could assess for student fees is the students own income which is pointless as students cant work full time and the only way fees could be reintroduced is to do one of those student loan schemes they have elsewhere where student pays back money when in full time employment after graduation.