[Margaret Pilkington]

while I accept that higher education must be funded...I think that this is not the way to go about it......Wasn't it the Labour government who wanted all children to get a university education, but without any thought to how this would be funded?...and also they did not take into consideration that some jobs are vital to society, but they do not require a degree to do them. Do you expect your refuse collector to have a degree?

Many graduates leave University with a huge millstone of debt around their necks, and with the current financial situation, a lot of them are not going to be earning the money to pay off the debts..and all the while the interest is accruing.

Vince Cable is suggesting that degrees are completed in 2 years instead of three. Making the study more intense.......having seen the work my daughter has done in three years I find this difficult to grasp.....compressing her studies into two years would have been crippling.

Maybe the answer is to get rid of the degrees in Media studies and the other degrees that appear to have little or no validity.