No Win Situation

Inroducing No-Fee degrees is a hasty step in the direction of complicating the system even more with opt-out clauses. I wonder how your classmates would feel if you are not paying the same whopping top-up as they are, and getting the same service. How would the lecturers feel?
We know that the new fees are paid after you graduate. The government is taking action so it does not have to go into debt to fund these degrees, because there is going to be trouble in years to come. Equality is going out of the window to make a saving wherever possible which is what is required at the moment, if the state becomes ungovernable, what is the point in educating millions when the money isn't there?
We have lived through some brilliant times. So many people had had a higher education when in yesteryear it would have been scoffed at. However, student loans and fees are really not a sensible idea in the long term. Ok, the individual goes into debt, but there is a huge amount of debt that goes un-repaid. In essence, maintenance loans are just grants from the government in the same way they used to be unless the graduate job market is expanded to accommodate for the pool of higher education talent. Or else, they go abroad and not a penny of repayment is seen again. The conservative idea of private finance appears lucrative but you only have to see how far they have gone with this in the USA, to sample the misery this creates at a time of recession.
However, some poor will genuinely benefit from this development. It is possible to earn quite a lot part-time to cover the smaller costs of living at home. A lot have already sneered at the idea of the no-fee degree, but poor families will benefit from this and may even have a smoother university experience, differentiating from the genuinely stressful live-out experience. This stress comes from circumstances such as difficult housemates, finding part-time work, housing conditions, campus politics and having the confidence to live away from the support of home.