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Date Posted: 12:38:25 08/25/11 Thu
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: University fees in Scotland
In reply to: Dave in Kg. 's message, "Re: University fees in Scotland" on 06:09:52 08/25/11 Thu

Shame it wasn't actually!!!

I think the Uni fees are deplorable, especially when you think that most of the people who have blithely put the fees on and up didn't have to pay fees. Admittedly some of them might not have got grants because Mummy & Daddy were too rich, but even so they didn't have to pay to be educated. Rachel managed to get her fees paid when she did her Masters because she was still at Uni doing her Batchelor's when she applied, and she had letters of recommendation from her tutors (mind one of them was hoping to get inside her knickers but she managed to avoid his attentions without too many difficulties)but we had to cough up for her fees when she was doing her doctorate, but she also had a job whilst doing it so that she didn't have to borrow from us to live as she didn't get a grant. She didn't have to pay her fees when she was at the Uni of New Mexico as it was an exchange for a year, she got a living allowance when she was at the Uni of Natal as it was for her Masters and it was research for the World Health Organisation anyway, and I don't know what happened with her 3 months at a Uni in Perugia in Italy, she certainly didn't ask for any money from us, but she did cost us a small fortune as we had to pay for her air fares to the US and to South Africa as well as partially funding her for her accommodation in the US, so she probably cost us about �15,000 over the years but I don't begrudge one penny of it even if we were living with our belts tightened while she was away. I agree though that there are far too few apprenticeships and too many going to Uni when they shouldn't be. I have a friend whose daughter wanted her daughter to go to Uni, and the lass didn't want to. Sharon encouraged her to go for an apprenticeship as she was already working at a hairdressers as a Saturday job, she went for it and came out top of the class, and is now doing very well, and has managed to get on a course for prosthetics and hair for the film industry. Wouldn't have got that through Uni.

Gilly

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Re: University fees in Scotland -- Ani, 09:44:30 08/26/11 Fri