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Tuition Fees

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Students take to the streets in support of fees cap »

Thousands of students from English universities took to the streets last Wednesday to protest against the removal of a cap on university tuition fees costs. Students from across various universities joined the campaign which sought to brand the higher...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Hiran Balasuriya | Read more »

Oxbridge: 'We are not social security offices' »

The Chancellor of Oxford University has claimed that students should be paying more despite an NUS survey revealing that the average student debt is set to rise to more than £20,000 by 2010. Lord Chris Patten has called for the government to abol...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Laura Robertson | Read more »

Cap on tuition fees essential for equality, says NUS »

The National Union of Students (NUS) launched a new campaign calling for a review of the Higher Education funding system currently in place last month.The fifteen page report, 'Broke and Broken', reveals inherent flaws in the 2004 Higher Education Act,...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Corinne Redfern | Read more »

Cuts in funding for second degrees »

Funding for students taking a second undergraduate degree will be cut this year by the government. The Conservative motion opposing the plan was defeated.Cuts of around £100m a year were announced in September last year. The money that has been u...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Joanna Hosa | Read more »

Expert calls for graduate payment rethink »

Andrew Cubie

A leading academic has called for a rethink on how graduates contribute to the cost of university education.Dr Andrew Cubie, who was involved in the 1999 investigation which led to the abolition of tuition fees in Scotland, asked whether it was "s...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Alastair Sloan | Read more »

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