Teenagers getting their results this week maintain little choice but to scramble for a university spot and face the enormous debt now involvedIn a couple of days’ time about half a million young people will find out their A-level results. Soon we will no doubt learn whether a fraction more,or less, gained A*s compared with last year and in which subjects. But this year is different. A much higher proportion of youngsters will win a university spot than ever before. And the message from ministers will be: everyone who strives is a winner in Cameron’s Britain. That message is a lie.
Universities will accept more students this year because the government has scrapped the old financial rules, or which capped the number of places in each university. Now institutions can take any number. At the same time,the government’s benefit changes maintain made it harder for anyone aged under 25 to find a pleasant job and be able to afford to house themselves. Those who don’t travel to university generally maintain to take whatever precarious low-paid work is on offer near their home.
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Source: theguardian.com