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Tuition Fees

When asked about the education committee trying to put a 3% limit on how much interest students can be charged on tuition fees, the PMS said that not all universities had come forward with the fees they were going to charge. The Government’s position was very clear that charging anything above the 6,000 figure quoted should be the exception and not the norm. There is a process in place for universities who want to charge a higher fee and that process involves setting out access plans for people from disadvantaged backgrounds which needs to go via the Office of Fair Access.

Asked how would the Government would feel about a 3% interest limit being set, the PMS referred journalists to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, but said that clearly there would still be an option for the Government to legislate further should it get to the position where students are having to borrow much higher loans to pay for tuition fees.

Put that with inflation this could rise to 5% which was a lot of money, the PMS replied again that the Government’s position on tuition fees was clear, we want people to go to university but can’t expect the public purse to be able to pay for everyone to go to university.

When put that this was an end to further education in this country, the PMS said she disputed that fact.

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