It is sufficient to make a desperate highschool senior take to the street nook with a tin can and Biaya Uhamka a handwritten sign. Yup, 18-yr-old Emily Stutz panhandled for faculty tuition in her hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, to attract consideration to her financial plight and that of hundreds of thousands of faculty hopefuls. The stunt garnered international information protection and directed empathetic readers to Emily’s GoFundMe web page, the place the elated senior has received more than $24,000 in donations, largely from complete strangers.

If we should persist with this bizarrely costly and ultimately counter-productive loans system, universities must be allocated a fixed amount to cover central administration costs after which be required to produce a clearly itemised bill for each scholar. In the event that they continue to insist that it prices £600 an hour to offer a humanities lecture, then at least part-time tutors could have affordable grounds to request a pay rise.

Dr Mark Ellis

Huddersfield

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