Top 6 Reasons Not to Go to the UK for College

Here are the Top 6 reasons not to go to the UK for college. Nick Clegg got the ball rolling in 2010 – and things have only just begun Nick Clegg went back on his tuition fees pledge, the Lib-Con coalition introduced £9,000-a-year tuition fees, the Education Maintenance Allowance was ditched, a multi-billion pound scheme to rebuild 715 crumbling schools was axed, the growth in applications to UK universities has slowed – and that’s just the beginning of the demise in the state of education for international students in the UK.Young people seem to keep bearing-the-brunt of tough rules as the Conservatives’ cold, iron grasp continues to tighten around the neck of the student community.Chancellor George Osborne’s latest Budget announcement – coupled with Home Secretary Theresa May’s unyielding stance on pushing international students out of the country as soon as possible – are, no doubt, paving the way for an entirely new, and not-so-popular, way of life for Britain’s students.So, how are things looking on the horizon? Here are the six ways in which the Tories are screwing-over the country’s youth:The end of the maintenance grantThe privately-educated George Osborne a.k.a. Gideon Oliver (really) last week announced that low-income families will not be receiving any more help in sending prospective students off to university. Where before, some 500,000 students from families with annual incomes of £25,000 or less could get the full maintenance grant of £3,387-a-year, as of September 2016, it will be no more.The idea of the grant – which did not have to be paid back – was to make university more accessible for all, regardless of background.Click here to view the original web page at www.independent.co.uk