I do not think Blackburn College should bow to the pressures of the universities to bring its proposed £7,000 higher education tuition fees in line with the proposed £9,000 that the universities want to charge.

The ordinary working tax payers of this country will be struggling to send their children on basic college courses, once the EMA is stopped, never mind trying to find money for higher education courses or university.

To a large proportion of families, this will be out of the question.

Unfortunately, this coalition government has cut funding in the education system, which is now a severe threat to the future education of our children – the same government that not long ago sent £600million out of the country to build schools elsewhere.

This present government claims it cannot mend our roads, provide restpite care for the sick or proper care for the elderly, but it can provide extortionate salar-ies and expenses for its MPs. It can also afford to keep convicts living in luxury.

This is not what the elect-orate voted them in to do.

L Ashcroft (via email).