What are you talking about? What is your point?

and there is the great inter party Parliamentary con, you are right. within 5-10 years you will require a Degree to become a Police office. the first Police degree courses started 2-3 years ago, the plan is that all officers in the future will do this.
as Part of the course you have to serve as a Special(unpaid) this increases the man power at little cost. you do 3 years run up a £50,000 debt as opposed to the service spending over £100,000 in pay and training costs for an officers first 2 years in training. Police budgets( now being cut) can manage the cuts the number of officers on the beat increases (specials are counted as officers) . finally with a degree many of these new officers will serve for less than 10-12 years . they will see they have no hope of promotion. so they leave there pension will be frozen until they are 65+ again massive savings against officers normally retiring between 50-55 on a full pension

I think you have a skewed view of the services there......I know a lot of people who have joined the forces (particularly the navy), got a first class training in electronics/mechanics etc. After completing the minimum elnistment, period they have left and got very highly paid jobs in the private sector.

The forces aren't a career for life or a vocation to most who join. It's a job.

Why are you and your daughter so uptight about the motivation of others?

And by what measure does that illustrate she can afford it? It doesn't look to me that you're very good at mathematics. By the time she graduates, others will already have earned money for years. If she has to repay the loan, her catching up will even be slower. If overall, she will have to land a very high-paying job to break even, the question is very much whether she can afford it.