Experts explain the refusal of young people from higher education in Britain

The protracted crisis has led to the fact that citizens began to save on education

The economic crisis in Britain, where inflation topped 10% for the first time in 40 years, has pushed some families to make a difficult decision. Future students began to refuse to enter universities. Demand for higher education has fallen. How the current situation can change British society, we learned from representatives of the field of education and jurisprudence.

The cost of studying at universities in the UK has long been a problem for students from low-income families. Now, however, higher education has become even more inaccessible. Fearing not to pay their bills, the inhabitants of Foggy Albion began to take fewer loans for educational purposes. Their number decreased by 11% compared to the same period last year.

“According to Bloomberg, inflation in the UK has made working with a minimum wage for school graduates more attractive than studying at the university,” notes economist Timofey Maslov. – Some parents can no longer pay for the maintenance of non-working children – university students, so they send them to colleges, and in their free time, young people work part-time as couriers or fast food sellers.

On average, education in Britain costs about 18 thousand euros per year. However, in prestigious universities, prices can reach up to 40 thousand.

For several years, England has been somewhere between the European model of higher education, where tuition fees increase annually, and the US system, where there is a mixed public and private provision, according to Paul Stevens, a former professor at the British University of Southampton, Paul Stevens.

“Don’t expect universities to get cheaper in our economic realities,” Paul wrote on his blog. paid the true cost of their education. Now the burden of money falls entirely on them.”

“In general, there is a way to reduce the cost of student life in the United Kingdom,” they told us in one of the metropolitan educational centers. But it is only available to a select few. The most famous British scholarship is called Chevening, it is given to students with leadership qualities. The scholarship covers a year of study in a master’s program at any British university. In addition, a number of universities make one-time discounts.