University tuition fees for more equal opportunities

The British government has announced plans to raise university tuition fees, and Spain is also debating such a move. The left-liberal daily El País warns of the dangers of such a debate in the context of the austerity measures: "Raising university fees must be debated in terms of equality and efficiency and not budgetary cuts. It doesn't seem very fair, for instance, that wealthy parents who can afford to send their children to private schools see their costs go down when their children go to university - the very phase of education which is not compulsory and which leads to the best opportunities on the labour market. In such cases the fees should be much closer to the real costs. For their part the many students who come from a less comfortable social background should receive more grants and support to prevent their talents from being wasted for lack of financial means."

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