Your editorial (8 February) is right to focus on {that a} graduate levy by stealth isn’t any method to fund the NHS and its potential penalties. This may embrace resident medical doctors, whose dissatisfaction with their pay and dealing circumstances can be amplified by the chancellor’s assertion that they now want to assist pay for their very own salaries.
The anger that latest graduates really feel may also be felt by their mother and father, a lot of whom benefited from free larger training and see as unfair the reimbursement/tax adjustments being imposed. The federal government ought to keep in mind the electoral close to wipeout skilled by the Liberal Democrats in 2015, having enabled the Tory-led coalition to triple the price of pupil charges, regardless of the manifesto pledge to take away it.Dr Michael SymondsEmeritus professor, College of Nottingham medical college
It would helpful if Martin Lewis would clarify why a graduate with a pupil mortgage mustn’t search to scale back the quantity payable by claiming it as an funding, in step with successive authorities claims {that a} diploma is simply that.Gavin Greenwood,Brighton, East Sussex
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