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The student loan system has been dubbed ‘deeply unfair.’ Do you think repayment options are fair or not and why? Should university be free like Scotland or does it make sense that students have to pay?

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00:00So if you're not successful, you don't pay nothing back, but if you're successful and got a good job, you've
00:05got to pay the money back. It's just ridiculous.
00:09Personally, because I teach at university, I think it should be free.
00:13No, I don't think it makes sense to have students pay for their education. I think all education should be
00:19free, like it used to be at one time.
00:22Free for Scotland should be free for us, but it's exactly the same as the hospital car parks. We pay
00:28a net in other places. You don't pay. That's nothing. How is that fair?
00:32When I was at university, we didn't have student loans. It was grants and you didn't have to pay it
00:39back.
00:40So I do think that obviously it can be a rope around people's financial neck, if you like, with regard
00:49to paying it back.
00:51A big death for some young kids doesn't start life off. And then they just give up in the end,
00:58don't they probably.
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