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Is UK university education the right route to take?
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It’s that time of year in England and Wales when 17 and 18-year-olds anxiously await the results of their A-level exams. For some, it won’t be the grades that will prevent them from going to university – but the debt.The Coalition Government has decided to increase tuition fees in England and Wales to nearly £9,000 a year. So, is going to university necessarily the right route to take?VOR’s Juliet Spare discusses this is Professor of Education at University College London Anthony Smith; Managing Director of www.notgoingtouni.co.uk, Spencer Mehlman; Annika Olsen, researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission on the Future of Higher Education; and 22- year-old Calum Lynch-Strachan, who has been offered a place at university, but still hasn’t made up his mind whether to go or not.
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