And now, in the absence of those digits they paid £9,250 a year for, the class of 2023 gets to spend their summer watching the interest cap on tuition fees expire in August, and a likely higher one come in to clobber them by the time they finally get their degree certificate.
Instead, it has become a largely needless hoop to jump through for young people, who the Government has successfully convinced will amount to nothing without a 2 and a 1 somewhere on their CV. The notion that students gain anything from the higher education experience has been moot for a long time. Surely these opportunities are now the only point of going to university for the cohort for whom fun and in-person learning were all but stripped away. Some rightly fear that this will scupper their scholarship chances, graduate job prospects and conditional offers for further studies. At other universities, some final year students have no idea where their grades stand, as modules and dissertations handed in have gone unmarked, leaving them to enter their exams “blind”.
This is the fate of politics and sociology students at Cambridge University, whose results could come five months after their exams, unless the strike is called off. For a debt of £46,000 many 21-year-olds graduating this summer can recount a glittering three years of being locked down in their student rooms with video lectures during Covid, followed by academic strikes, which left some without a single in-person session for certain modules.Īnd now, to pour salt in the wounds already overspilling with it, they may not learn their degree classifications until “shortly after” September 30 – months past the proper due date – as a result of a marking boycott.
There has never been a worse time to be a student in Britain.
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