MONEY MORALS: My younger daughter's university fees are £17,000 higher than those of her elder sister. Should I pay the difference?
In our Money Morals series we invite readers to help solve a dilemma. This time, one reader asks whether she should pay the difference between the university fees paid by her two daughters.
Read the question and leave your answer in comments at the bottom.
Making things fair? A reader asks whether she should pay for a portion of one daughter's university fees (Posed by models)
I have two daughters, the youngest of whom has just finished her university degree while the elder graduated three years earlier.
Because they are three years apart, the younger sister paid considerably higher fees because the cost of going to university has been rising so steeply.
The younger paid fees of £9,000 a year and the elder £3,290.
This means that the younger sibling has graduated with an extra £17,000 of debt. It doesn’t feel fair that she is starting out in life with that extra burden through no fault of her own. But also I worry it might not seem fair to effectively give one daughter £17,000 and the other nothing.
My husband and I don’t have a lot of money, but have enough in savings that we could afford to do it.
- How earlybirds can STILL find a holiday bargain: Discover...
- Sterling loses a quarter of its value against the Zambian...
- Improve your health and get more sleep, Tesco tells dubious...
- Life is sweet... as Lord Sugar paid himself £181m dividend...
- 'My garage was full of old bike parts – now they’re my...
- High street trounced by 40% online sales surge as Asos heads...
- JON REES: Why were the experts so wrong about the impact of...
- TONY HETHERINGTON: Bank's euro draft bungle cost £1,500 in...
- JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Investors shouldn't have returns denuded by...
- Fishy forecasts storm turns into a hurricane: MP demands...
- The families struggling on £70k: Two thirds say they're...
- Brompton Bicycle sees profits plunge after firm moves to new...