university fees Articles

23 and under, what an age group to be in. Things have not been looking great for us for a while, have they? Educational Maintenance Allowance scrapped, university fees tripled and a struggling further education sector in a number of regions. Not only that, but the...

‘Why do you care about young people when most of them don’t vote?’ Ed Miliband was asked many questions last night on BBC Three’s ‘Free Speech’, from a referendum on EU membership to tuition fees. But the question on why the Labour party cares is the one that sticks...

In his autumn statement, albeit delivered in winter, George Osborne announced that loans of up to £10,000 would be made available by the Students Loans Company for postgraduate study. My reaction was mixed. I was pleased that funding was finally on offer to students...

Ed Miliband’s announcement committing a future Labour government to cutting university tuition fees by a third is a game changer in this election. Vice-chancellors will no doubt shout loudly about a funding shortfall. Yet they personally have been cocooned from the...