It’s sufficient to make a determined highschool senior take to the street nook with a tin can and a handwritten signal. Yup, 18-yr-previous Emily Stutz panhandled for college tuition in her hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, to attract consideration to her financial plight and that of thousands and thousands of school hopefuls. The stunt garnered international news protection and Biaya Uhamka directed empathetic readers to Emily’s GoFundMe web page, the place the elated senior has received greater than $24,000 in donations, principally from full strangers.

If we should persist with this bizarrely costly and ultimately counter-productive loans system, universities must be allocated a set amount to cowl central administration costs after which be required to supply a clearly itemised invoice for every student. In the event that they proceed to insist that it prices £600 an hour to offer a humanities lecture, then no less than half-time tutors may have affordable grounds to request a pay rise.

Dr Mark Ellis

Huddersfield

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