University Applications Fall 10% In A Year

I'm not surprised about the fall in Uni applications . . . especially if you can't get a job at the end of the course !!

once again university education becomes the domaim of the rich due to the tuition increses coming in soon

The Universities in their frenzied enthusiasm to raise their fees couldn't see this coming .
Not very smart at all.

The real pity is that there are some very talented youngsters who want to study a worthwhile subject as opposed to something that has no real benefit such as looking for a quick and easy way into show business. I expect that the better off parents will be able to manage the finances unlike the less fortunate. This is exactly what the Tories want. Any student who wants to study a sensible subject at Uni should not have to pay at all. Those that want to be actors or singers or some other easy way through life should be made to pay!

They plan is to dumb down the English further so they go on voting for the left right paradigm.

There are NOT the jobs there once were here and there NEVER will be again. Something needs to change.
Plus we are waaaaay over populated. It needs a virus or a massive war. Sad to say.

It couldn't be anything to do with the £9K cost this year and rising to £12K next year, uncapped for following years could it?
Perhaps The Government should employ an expensive ''Think Tank'' to find out.
Heading the Think Tank could be a job for ''A Chum'' thus reducing the Out of Work Figures.

Oh wow this isn't surpising eh? Maybe the fact that some students thought they would have to pay £9,000 in tuition fees kinda played a part? Some current students whom started in 2011 would have not had to pay this, no, I bet not everyone, even many knew this. So that's why.

So much for Lib Dem claims to be increasing social mobility. Of course its put people off - who wants a £40K+ debt at 22 years of age? Its uni for the rich and bu**er the rest from now and for the forseeable...........

Good ,that was the object of the excercise ,another year or two and maybe they will drop all the useless courses and get back to serious subjects that are of some use to the nation .

I was on University Challenge in my youth. Flash was our team captain. When Paxman asked him what he was reading, he said 'Slowly'.

I was going to do an O U course in science until I found out what it was going to cost me next Autumn, the fees are trebling and is way out of my budget so I simply can't afford to do it...how do they expect people to pay thoushands of pounds for a course that just lasts a few months...way to expensive for me, especially in this economic era...

It's a shame really,cos the less that go,the more need to sign on.Just waiting for the next round of how they can fiddle the figures on actual unemployment.

We can thank Clegg and his LibDems for this. Before the election they promised one thing then did another.

With the massive fees hike I'm amazed that its only a 10% drop.

It's not surprising that applications are down by 10% from last year. Last year saw a huge surge in applications in order to beat the fees increase. A lot of students who would normally have taken a gap year were applying for a place, and this alone boosted numbers significantly. Plus, you had mature students who took the plunge and applied for a place whilst fees were relatively cheap. A far more meaningful comparison is with 2010. Compared with that year, the downturn is a lot less and in the case of some universities (ours included) the application rate is actually UP, not down.

I wonder why?

I don't agree with tuition fees, in fact I find it obscene to charge for education.
However, having said that, I didn't agree with some of the Mickey Mouse courses either.
Maybe the 10% drop, were thinking of David Beckham, or media studies, or sociologists. In which case their money is well saved, as very little would have come at the end of the course, and a very large debt for nothing!

This drop of 10% in student applications to UK universities, it didn't require a degree in rocket science to work that this would happen, and possibly continue happening year on year as purse strings for the ordinary families tighten - that is those not getting huge unearned bonuses - university in the UK is now only the domain of the student with rich parents.
The best thing any prospective university student can do is go abroad, my daughter went to Australia - the best decision she ever made - past with flying colours, now has a doctorate and is a well respected doctor of neurology, now married, still living in Australia with a good quality of life, something she would never have had in the UK!

so you triple the price of something and 10% of people dont buy WHAT a surprise! muppets