The full list of university fees
Here are the details of the fees that universities and colleges in England are planning to charge next year (2012/13). The table shows, from left to right, the name of the institution, the estimated average fee, and the estimated average fee after fee waivers. Anglia Ruskin University 8,175, 7,883 Aston University 8,722, 8,430 University [...]
Universities to learn if they can charge maximum fees
Universities will finally learn tomorrow whether they are allowed to charge students the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fee from September 2012. Most institutions are expected to be given the go-ahead to charge students the top fee on at least some courses when the Office for Fair Access (OFFA), the university admissions watchdog, announces its verdict. Universities [...]
LSE votes against setting £9,000 tuition fees
First of the elite Russell Group of top universities to charge less than the maximum fee. The London School of Economics has become the first Russell Group university to declare that it will not charge the full £9,000 tuition fees next year; instead the annual tuition fee for UK and EU undergraduates will be £8,500. [...]
Students march against tuition fee rise
Thousands of students and lecturers are demonstrating in central London against plans to almost treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. The National Union of Students says about 30,000 people are taking part. It is threatening to try to unseat Liberal Democrat MPs who go back on pre-election pledges they made to oppose [...]
Call to scrap 50% university student target
The government target of getting 50% of people under 30 into higher education should be scrapped, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has said. It also wants a phased increase in student top-up fees by 2020, with safeguards for disadvantaged families. AGR’s chief executive Carl Gilleard said the proposals would help “reaffirm the value of [...]