Why are universities in England not free like in Europe?

>free

Because we aren't communist faggots

>>75271720

From what I understand, it's literally because of things like in your pic.

It was free until they decided to go full PC and subsidize any old fucking retarded polytechnic no matter how utterly worthless their graduates were obviously going to be. So the whole thing became an utter abuse of state funds because you had useless shits sponging tens of thousands off the state doing their phony useless ''degrees'', so the tories pulled the plug on the whole thing, since it's easier to justify end funding to everyone than to a specific group of plebs.

Of course this is just conjecture, but I bet it was labour who were behind the initial pathetic decision.

>>75272212
iirc it was a Tory government who introduced the idea, Labour who actually implemented it and increased the amount twice, it was raised again in the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition, then raised again in the past year to £9,250

Tuition fees in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are devolved issues and the governments are allowed to set their own caps but it makes weird situations where an Englishman who has lived in Scotland two years prior to starting their course has their tuition paid in full by the Scottish government, but a Scotsman who has lived in England two years prior to starting their course will have to get a loan

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>tfw I was interested in going to Staffordshire but my grades weren't good enough

>>75273303
>couldn't get into an ex-polytechnic
how bad were your grades?

>>75273911
Overall an average of 4.7 (rounded to 4.5) out of 6 (the "OK" grade in Switzerland is 4).
Had to have an average of 5.

>>75274103
That really means nothing to me. Our grades for post 16 study aren't numbered.
Do you know how many UCAS points you needed, or is there no conversion for foreign students?
What subject did you want to do?

they're """"""""""""free""""""""""""""*

*tuition and loan paid for by the government, which you will pay back once you're earning over £20K per year

>>75274173
Game Design and development or some meme like that.

UCAS points didn't really matter I think, they just told me to piss off because I didn't have an average of 5 out of 6