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@john It’s a business, nothing else. And you graduate and realise there simply aren’t enough graduate jobs for everyone so they can pay you near enough minimum wage salaries.

@nyctophobia I was never told degree apprenticeships were an option and for many people a degree isn’t needed. You basically pay for a piece of paper and once you have your first job they don’t really care about your studies. I’m not saying university is always a bad option. But the price of...

@uilenroc I did engineering (which I was told you’ll 100% need a degree for) and I can honestly say I would do an apprenticeship instead.

@helping Yep, I was fooled into this as well, all my teachers pressured me into going to university and said there isn’t another option out there. I was young and stupid so I believed them. If I could go back I’d not go to university - my lectures were all essentially pre recorded from 2017 on...

@jerryargot It’s very infuriating. I don’t see how £9250 is justified for one year considering the level of education you get (especially during the pandemic). I guess people earning 40-100k basically pay for everybody else’s tuition as an education tax- people under £27k pay nothing, and people...

@cp115 Not any more than I would have with an apprenticeship.

@cbmiller Omg stop 😭 My loan increases by about £350 a month (for now) and I pay about £50 a month for it. It’s essentially a 9% pay cut for the rest of my life.

@preachermanrkl I think mine started on £42k and now it’s sitting over £60k just a couple of years later. Insane.

@helping The highest I seen mine was 7.3%… I haven’t dared logging in since, absolute madness.