We ask the people of Newport whether student fees are putting people off university, and whether they’d like to see it brought down or scrapped completely.
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00:00But the reason we tell people to go to higher education to earn more money
00:08and you know and as soon as they've got that qualification they're going to be
00:13paying off a debt of 50,000 pounds now is that more money or is that less money I don't know.
00:17Yes that is crazy I know my daughter-in-law she went to university you know many years ago
00:22so she might be one of those but I'm not sure it's as much as that but again yeah I mean
00:27I'm going to sort of think again in the future if they're in that much debt when they leave
00:30universities you know that's it's a lot of money isn't it that's a lot of money so again
00:36yeah something else has to be looked at too. I think it's all going to be looked you know
00:39looked into out the big pot eventually there's only so much money isn't it for everything so.
00:44The door needs to be broken it should be free you know I mean before I mean also it's like
00:55the dice is loaded against those who can't afford it.