OK, I understand what you are saying now.Its wrong though. The effect of fees is to stratify at a young age, eerily remininscent of secondary modern' Grammar skools of yore. The Rich right or left middle class are going to go anyway, irrespective off the presence of fees or not. The poor, faced with a ?50K debt will invariably goive it a miss or go for something terminally dull and vocational where the gamble of the education has a good chance of being paid back. We do not need nore lawyers or accountans with first class degrees from University of scunthorpe. No one except New Zealand prodces as many accounts as us nowadays, and that is a hell hole of drabness. We need more arts graduates, thinkers and soft subject specialists - not something you can place a tangible value on, not something that lord carpetright of minimum wage wants to see either. I can feck off ( well not really ) to the Sorbonne or Frei berlin for a few hundred quid a term in fees and actually study a suject that I am interested in.NO one grows up wanting to be a lawyer or an accountant. Education isnt about getting a qualification, its about growing up and thinking. Of course you wont agree with this, as you probabaly see everything as a bottom line balance sheet. I interviewed 4x graduate this week for a still to be defined role in a fast moving , etc evnironment. working for me I may add. Thye were terribibly dull people, all with 21 or firsts. having spent all their lives working towards success and qualifications, they had nothing to show, nothing to say, no ideas, no originality.NO spark that makes them stand out . It made me cry / ends