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Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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"If you keep them busy with basic needs, they will forget about the freedoms that they have lost."
Make things difficult enough and all anyone as any energy for is meeting the most basic needs. Having a place to live, feeding a family, etc. Dire times.
Indeed. I read somewhere that men are no longer wanting to go to university because of the prohibitive cost.
Unis aren't public in UK?
Anyone can go, but there are fees. If you can’t afford the fees or the living costs you can get a means tested student loan. They copied the US model and the costs are slowly getting in that direction. I graduated in the early 90’s when grants were still a thing, but they froze them so they didn’t rise with inflation any longer and you could get ‘top up loans’ to bridge the gap to cost of living. I think I borrowed something like £750. But it was the beginning of the end of free higher education here.