With the government constantly pushing more students to enter higher education the need for funding is becoming critical as institutions struggle to provide adequate teaching resources.
Top-up fees mean even greater debt for the students themselves before they actually earn any money. Surely it is more reasonable for those that go on to earn large figures to thank the institution that enabled them to do so through making a donation. This would thus relieve the strain placed on both the institutions and the students themselves.

The reputations of the red brick universities’ have become so overpowering when seeking graduate employment, there are people out there being turned down with first class degrees purely on the basis of where they studied.
I have worked in a commercial Law firm in West London, and can say from exerience that graduates seeking training contracts there who achieved fantastic degrees from anywhere other than Oxford, Cambridge and King’s College level institutions are immediately ignored on this basis.
If there were to be extra funding in weaker areas of these universities, then they would surely improve the balance in cases such as this. The hard work someone had put in to achieve a first at, for example, the University of Kent, would be recognised on merit, rather than the repututation the University, as a whole, has in the eyes of the professions.