The current system by which we fund university education is one of the more sickening examples of economic sleight of hand.
A large portion of university degrees are being funded through taxation yet we obscure this fact and at the same time burden students with the illusion of debt.
Natalie Bennett was right when she said that providing further education to young people is a public good, but we deny this:
while at the same time most people (presumably) agree that it is good for the country that more people should go to university, we put unnecessary barriers in the way in the form of an (in most cases) imaginary "loan".
