Was it right to hike university tuition fees up to £9,000 in 2012?

£9,000 is am unimaginable amount of money for most people. Even though it's a loan, and you can pay it back gradually, not many people would want to start their careers with that hanging over their heads. It just makes it really hard for people with less money to get an education, and to end up getting influential, important, or even well paid jobs. It means, for example, that government will always be run by the upper middle classes who have little idea of the realities of those they are making laws about, and management positions will also be taken by those who are better off, and who have parents to support them. So yes, hiking the fees was a really bad idea.