THE Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have tripled the cost of a university education, leaving the average graduate £44,000 in debt.

Most young people who attend university will be repaying their student loans into their fifties.

Many will never be able to repay them, meaning that when they are eventually written off after 30 years the total cost to the public will actually have been higher than when David Cameron and Nick Clegg decided to charge people £9,000 a year to study.