One very good reason for abolishing fees was to redress the discrimination against these groups. There is at least early evidence from Clancy and Wall's 1998 entrance to college data that the abolition of fees is beginning to redress the relative disadvantage of the lower professional and salaried employee groups. Both groups increased their participation rates between 1992 and 1998. They were the only two of 11 groups whose participation rate declined between 1986 and 1992. We can predict one certain outcome of the reintroduction of fees, that it would definitely worsen the opportunities for the children of nurses, teachers, office workers and all other low to middle income PAYE taxpayers.