Higher Education Fees

Debate between Andrew Percy and Sam Gyimah

Thursday 9th December 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Gyimah]

No, thanks.

Everyone has omitted to say that when people graduate, they earn about £100,000 more than people who do not.

[Andrew Percy]

The situation is that working class families, who are least able to support their children at university, will bear the additional costs. That was my point.

[Mr Gyimah]

If any lie has been perpetrated in this debate, it is that working class children who want to university cannot get there—[Interruption.] May I finish? The truth is that our education system is so bad that for a lot of underprivileged kids, the whole concept of university is simply academic.