He suggested it would do nothing to increase the number of students going to university.
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The statistics on the numbers going to university to study computing make sobering reading.
And if it wasn't for ice hockey, I definitely wouldn't be going to university in America.
The open-ended obligation to pay higher tax could deter some people from going to university.
With more young people going to university, it is hard to find suitable candidates for apprenticeships.
Concerns over large debts also served to make this route to employment more popular than going to university.
This means that almost 60, 000 more young people will be going to university each year than five years before.
It also runs schemes in which employers try to persuade local pupils of the benefits of going to university.
An increasing number of sixth formers say that tuition fees have made them consider not going to university, says research.
BBC: News | Education | Pupils put off university, says survey
And, as she turned 18 in mid-December, she thought of how she should have been going to university in Rome.
After going to university in Barcelona, Luis Saucedo from Tamaulipas, Mexico, thought it would be easy to find a job.
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Privately educated at Manchester Grammar School, Gill opted against going to university in order to pursue a full-time career in football.
The current most popular subjects students in Jersey chose when going to university are sport, psychology, history, medicine and primary school teaching.
This compares with less than 20% of sixth formers last year claiming to have reconsidered going to university because of tuition fees.
BBC: News | Education | Pupils put off university, says survey
This, it said, has not happened because nurses are going to university.
"We are going back to when I was a kid and you had little or no chance of going to university, " he said.
"If you get two As and a B and you want to go to university you will be going to university anyway, " he said.
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But the NUS and other opponents say the prospect of such large debts will deter young people from poorer backgrounds from going to university.
But she thinks others may not be so fortunate and may be put off going to university by the fear of being burdened with debt.
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Younger students are now seeing the advantages of not going to university, especially when they see how much they will save on the cost of fees.
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Research in France, which began phasing out conscription in 1996, suggests that male educational achievement fell: people used to dodge the draft by going to university.
However the PricewaterhouseCoopers researchers have backed the tuition fees system - saying that the increase in fees has not reduced the economic advantage of going to university.
But they also cited the increased cost of going to university as more employers are refusing even to look at people with less than a 2:1 degree grade.
Also looking forward to going to university is Glyn Wise.
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A-levels in hope of going to university to study architecture.
The UCU lecturers' union warned that graduate pay was not keeping pace with the forthcoming increase in tuition fees - and that the rewards of going to university would be diminished.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has always insisted its changes to student finance are fair - and that going to university depends on ability - not ability to pay.
The National Union of Students is promising to campaign directly against Lib Dem MPs who back the fees increase, arguing that the change will deter people from poorer backgrounds from going to university.
Their remit includes the question of how well the final years of secondary school provide for those who are not going to university, and how employers could better support the transition into work.
During the survey we answered questions about important issues that affect us as individuals, like things that scare or worry us and our personal thoughts about the future like going to university or college.
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