Letter: High price of a university degree

Sunday 27 July 1997 23:02 BST

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Letter: High price of a university

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Sir: Since graduating, I have paid some hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax to the government. Perhaps I would not have been able to earn as much, or pay as much tax, without the benefit of a degree, and certainly I consider that I have repaid the cost of my university education several times over.

However, if this government is adopting a policy of charging us for the services we use, I look forward to a substantial rebate of the taxes I have paid towards education (I have no children), the armed services (pacifist) and the church (atheist).

TOM CALLAGHAN

London SW15

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