Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 November 2009
18:1233406They start to repay the debt when their income goes above £15,000.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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18 November 2009
18:1533408You can't make that on National Minimum Wage I don't think.
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 November 2009
19:1833411Unlike NMW this figure was not indexed....
19 November 2009
16:5333461"Yes tried and proven to be pointless. Which is why 80% of local education authorities have got rid of them. It is only the counties with large numbers of middle england (you know, read the Daily Mail, like events that involve bunting, say things like "it's PC gone mad") that still have them, I wonder why...oh yes resistance to change." DT1
Well, I read the Guardian, Telegraph and Times, wouldn't use the Mail to line the litter tray, embrace change like an old friend and loathe the term "pc brigade" - as you probably know!!!! And yet I support grammar education because it is a good way or targeting education. We seem to be in agreement that education and its diversity should be targeted and used wisely, that those less academic are just as valid and improtant, and it is futile to try to cram children just for the sake of saying so many people have degrees. So, what is wrong with using grammars as the academic stream? Archers and Astor work really well for many of the kids there, and are, I think, demonstrably more holistic than the grammars appear to be. Tjhey all work well in their own spehere - why change that?
19 November 2009
16:5433462And don't get me started about student loans - I have a son at Uni and it's a nightmare. And the idea of CHARGING kids for their education is appalling!!!!! It is such an obvious way to control development and growth and stifling real education. Don't get me started!!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 November 2009
19:1133486Ditto, Bern, and dont get me started
With daughter Briony at UCL in London, it's a financial moneypit! To my horror I have just discovered today that even the NHS consider the student loan as income on help with health costs
In my view there will always be room for different types of secondary school to suit the needs of the individual student, most comprehensive and grammar do a fine job in fulfilling the aspirations of their students. Personally DGGS has suited both my girls and they have done very well there.
DT1- Location: Dover
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19 November 2009
19:2333487I didn't realise there were any comprehensives in Dover!?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 November 2009
19:2833488colette
are you saying that briony has to pay for prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests?
19 November 2009
23:0133509You wouldn't believe the farce that is student loans. Seriously, don't get me started!!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 November 2009
10:5633529Yes Howard, she has to pay, its an utter disgrace, she barely has a pittance left over to live on let alone pay NHS charges, we help her where we can. Its hard enough for students to cope on their loans and to add insult to injury, it is after all a huge debt to be paid back, to class it as income against health costs is farcical.
As Bern says, don't get me started, I'd be here all day
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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20 November 2009
13:0533537that has left me dumbstruck, i always thought that all students would have been exempt.
that really is hitting below the belt.