A similar situation applies in the UK. My son is just about to finish his 3-year degree course. He will have a student debt of over £20,000. In addition, it has cost us and his grandmother around £8000 a year. And that's before the rise in tuition fees which have now, at most unis, trebled to £9000 a year. It's the wealthy Conservatives' way of guaranteeing their elitism continues. Bastards!