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Students in GB today

Great Britain has a long history for education since the beginning of University of Oxford in 1096 (1). Only rich and prosperous families could afford a proper education, but this has changed the last fifty years. Because of state loan funds and lower tuition fees, people from other social classes can also have further education.

The state economy generally has been worse since the financial crisis in the world, and many countries had to make drastically changes in their state budget, such as England. This affects also the students; the tuition fee has been increased by three.

This again caused big protests from students all over Great Britain, form Edinburgh to London. Most of the protest were peacefully, but some also used violence against the police. . In London 17 people were injured, 32 students were arrested, and over 50.000 were gathered together in the streets to protest against the government. (2). media type="youtube" key="PC3C-gkvUWI" width="425" height="350" align="right"

The problem about this proposed budget is that it will create a negative circle. Many people will not have enough money to pay the tuition fee and can therefore not take further education. Britain will have deficit on educated people, but an overflow of not-educated youths. Getting a job will be harder, and the unemployment will increase. What started as a medium-size problem has now evolved into a major problem.

Not only will the economy get worse, but the different between the social classes will get bigger. Upper class families can always afford tuition fees, and their children will get a good education, and afterwards, good, well-paid jobs.

Great Britain has a long history of education, but they are about to ruin it. Instead of building a future, they have dug their own grave.

Sources: 1: [], wikimedia, 10 mars 2011 2: [], Olav Eilifsen, 10.11.2010, [], bbc, Sean Coughlan, 24.11 2010