I would definitely have applied to go to university next autumn if the Government hadn’t introduced charges. Now I’m thinking of getting a job next year to help pay for it, and deferring university entrance Or just giving up altogether and getting a job. Her mother is a nursery teacher and her father is an electrician.The idea of paying tuition fees makes me angry. If I reach the right level, I should be able to get a job in that field in 12 months’ time.Amy Potter, 17, is taking three A-levels next summer – media studies, general studies and English – at Abingdon College in Oxfordshire. At the end of three years I would be a minimum of pounds 15,000 in debt, possibly pounds 18,000 going on pounds 20,000 I’d be nearly 48 years old.

I just cannot start looking for work at that age owing that amount of money. It would not allow me at any point to start building a pension.My daughter should come first I feel I should support her So instead, I’m doing a course in computer literacy. There they are, telling me and everybody like me that we have to pay.I couldn’t afford to go to university now At the moment I get income support and my rent paid That amounts to about pounds 5,000 a year I need that just to stand still. I just find it unbelievable of Labour.What really annoys me is that a lot of this new intake of Labour MPs have only just finished university themselves.

Eventually, though, I became disillusioned with acting and left it.I started working for an upholstery company, but it ran into financial trouble and I was made redundant. So I came back home to Bradford and enrolled on this access course. Part of me always regretted not going to university and going to drama school. I thought, `This is the time to do it.’Then the Labour government arrived It’s outrageous that they’re introducing fees You would believe it of a Tory government. He would rather concentrate on helping his 16-year-old daughter, who plans to go to university in two years’ time.I got three O-levels and didn’t bother with exams much, because I wanted to be an actor. I was an actor for 22 years, including six years with Bill Bryden’s company at the National Theatre.

That will be expensive.Former actor Stephen Petcher, 43, is on an access course at Bradford and Ilkley Community College. He had been planning to progress to a degree at Bradford University, but he can’t face being left with a debt when he graduates at the age of 48. I don’t think I’ll be able to go to university anywhere else.My parents want me to go to university because they never had the chance But I don’t want my parents to have to pay for me I have a sister of 15 and a brother of 11 My sister wants to do medicine. They’re in the south, and accommodation down there is expensive.

That puts me off as well.I’ve also been looking at studying linguistics and English at Bangor, where housing is cheap Rents are pounds 37 there. But because of tuition fees I’m probably going to have to opt for Teesside University or get a job. I’d rather get a job, make some money, and gain a qualification once I have saved enough money.Students are coming out in debt and with loans as it is. If we’re going in with no student grants and having to pay for our tuition, we’re going to come out more in debt, so we’ll have to pay more in loan repayments when we eventually get our jobs. I’d rather earn money than come out of university being in debt and having to pay that off when I finally get a job. She may have to stay in the area, attend Teesside, her local university, and live at home.
Tuition of pounds 1,000 is going to bring me into debt I don’t want that. Katie wants to go to university, but now she isn’t sure she’ll be able to.