University tuition fees rising to £9,535 in England next year

University tuition fees rising to £9,535 in England next year - live updates - BBC News

Students in England will pay more for their university courses with tuition fees going up to £9,535 next year - the first increase in eight years

Some students will also be able to borrow more to pay their living costs from next autumn

Reply 1

username6708851

I’ve read that the actual annual cost of undergrad tuition per student is closer to £12-13k. I suppose £285 increase is a step toward closing that gap without being as unpopular as it could be.

I wonder if we'll see more gradual increases over the next few years.

Reply 2

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by Jedi BB-8

We probably will, until the government completes its review of how HE should be funded.

Reply 3

artful_lounger

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The gall of the conservatives criticizing higher tuition fees (by about £300) under labour when they were the ones that tripled them in the first place while slashing HE funding.

It's rage inducing.

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by artful_lounger

The gall of the conservatives criticizing higher tuition fees (by about £300) under labour when they were the ones that tripled them in the first place while slashing HE funding.
It's rage inducing.

Why? Surely your rage would be better directed at the party whose leader and Deputy leader both pledged to abolish fees altogether - and instead have done the exact opposite and increased them.

Rayner said in the Commons: "We will scrap tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants. Free education for all is the prospect that they [conservatives] would believe is so terrifying"

Starmer said in televised interview: (Andrew Neil)"University tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?" (Starmer) "Yes."

So it's not the party that introduced them in the first place that attracts your ire. It's not the party that publicly and openly pledged to scrap tuition fees citing the wonders of free education and then did the opposite? No. It's the evil Tories. It's always the evil Tories.