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Labour announces its tuition fee policy
Labour’s long-awaited policy on tuition fees arrived today as part of its ‘zero-based’ spending review. The opposition party has now committed to reducing the maximum tuition fee at English...
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Some further consideration of Labour’s tuition fee announcement
Campaign for the Public University has provided five reasons to give two cheers to Labour’s tuition fee pledge. I am not a cheery soul but I’ll offer three further plus points for fee reductions.They...
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TEF & fee increases
For many, the Higher Education Green Paper‘s central component will be the proposals to link the Teaching Excellence Framework to the ability to set undergraduate tution fees from Home/EU students...
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Theresa May on international students
The Times reports today that Theresa May’s government is looking at ways ‘to examine how to reduce the number of international students coming to the UK’. This will require universities to develop...
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Why undergraduate tuition fees are not prices when backed by SLC loans
My contribution to Tuesday’s event at Kingston raised an issue to which several audience and panel members returned. I made the claim that the undergraduate tuition fee is not a price. What I meant by...
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The cost of abolishing tuition fees
Labour will enter the general election committed to abolishing tuition fees for undergraduate study (for English-domiciled and EU students studying in England). London Economics and the Institute for...
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IFS on tuition fees
As you’ve probably gathered from the media coverage, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has a new report out on tuition fees in England. It offers a thorough summary of changes since 2012 and reinforces...
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Fees frees from government control …
Jo Johnson’s speech and newspaper article at the end of last week succeeded in driving the news agenda back towards an idea first raised by IFS back in April: addressing existing student loan debt,...
View ArticleMay blinks on loans and fees
Last Sunday saw Conservative leakers floating several options regarding the reform of English HE financing; today sees Theresa May confirm what has been clear for months: that planned rises to the...
View ArticleTalks in Leicester (Wed 9 May)
Update: Both talks will now be in: Room 501, Ken Edwards Building I will be giving two talks at University of Leicester on Wed 9 May. The first, from 3.00-4.15pm, will be a student-focused event with a...
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