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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian community team

UK school leavers: have you been turned off university over affordability concerns?

Photo of a piggy bank on a table with a blurred image of a woman typing on a calculator in the background
Many graduates will end up paying for their degree until retirement in what has been described as a “lifelong graduate tax”. Photograph: Andriy Popov/Alamy

We’re interested to hear from young Britons who have opted out of higher education because they feared student life would be unaffordable, or had concerns about their financial future if they attended university.

Whether financial concerns relating to tuition fees, student accommodation, student loan repayments or concerns about graduate job prospects have prompted you to do an apprenticeship instead, enter the workforce straight away or take a time out to consider your options, we’d like to hear from you.

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