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Contributions to maintenance are a million miles away from tuition fees. I have no problem with the idea of students working to keep their debt down.
What I do have a problem with is someone who managed to leave University under completely different conditions patronisingly suggesting that it's a realistic aim for most people to do today.
Which, given you were possibly entitled to a grant scheme (you paid towards your maintenance) and you had no tuition fees to pay is frankly twisting the truth to the point of snapping.
The education you received for free under a scheme where you had the opportunity of help with maintenance, is something you think should be denied to modern youth, because now you've benefitted from it you see no value in contributing to other people enjoying the same opportunities. If that's your position, you could have been honest enough to just say so at the start. Rather than the snide comment that you'd managed to do it all by yourself so everyone else should.
Where do I say it should be denied? Show me.
I suggested some may think about working harder themselves rather than being wholly subsidised.
Many of my peers at the time time owed thousands, even back then, at the end of thier degress. I did not. That is fact.
Even after the time spent studying overseas, which was ENTIRELY at my expense, I was debt free. I'm proud of that, and I don't see why I shouldn't be.