education

[Leanne]

go to uni on a government loan,once you start making a certain amount of money,pay it back,that's the system we used to have in holland,pretty good i thought

That's how it works here too sj. Citizens have subsidised education but still have to pay for it, it just goes as a loan through the tax system so as soon as you're earning over a certain amount (I think it's about $35000), it's automatically deducted from your wages, indexed according to how much you earn. Post-grad degrees are mostly paid for up front but you can also defer payment for certain degrees in high-demand industries, which is what I'm doing (grad dip ed), otherwise there's no chance I'd be able to afford it and the only educated people would be the wealthy, which would suck because money is no guarantee of brains.