Nothing free for students

School and university graduates have already studied life orientation in high school, and had to get a certain amount of points for community service projects during that time. They have done their time and do not need to do it again. - Anneke, by e-mail

I love it. Medical students should not be discriminated against.

All school leavers should go through compulsory military service. This would help them to "find their feet", maybe a vocation, be employed and useful, and learn discipline. The "old days" of boys learning to make beds, clean and iron made them better men. It would help with our Moral & Morale Revolution too. - Joan Gallagher, by e-mail

There is no such thing as a free lunch. If the taxpayer paid for school or university, of course they owe the money. Whether they passed or failed, it was their education. They owe those who lent them the money.

Public service is a bad way of recovering student debt. Where necessary, each child should be loaned whatever funds are required to ensure that child's and the country's future.

The way it should work is that at birth every child gets an ID/tax number. Thereafter all borrowings from the state for housing, food, electricity, hospital, school and so on are added to their debt. They must repay once working, at normal tax plus 10%, until their debt to the taxpayer is repaid. - Robbie Lehman, by e-mail