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» Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Top up Fees

Asked if there were any considerations to lift the cap on top up fees, given the recent allegations given by Oxford University "pleading poverty", the PMOS replied that the situation remained unchanged. Oxford University had denied it was doing so for reasons of budgets.

Asked if there seemed to be an inevitability about it all, the PMOS said the position was set out at the time of the vote and the situation had not changed.

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It’s pretty inevitable that the cap is going to get lifted – or at least very significantly raised. Otherwise our universities are going to continue to be starved of funds.
Comment by Alex — 31 Jan 2005 on 1:44 pm | Link
Or we could go back to the good old days when governments believed that everyone should be able to afford higher education and paid for it by higher taxes on the well off: the vast majority of whom had benefited from free higher education themselves.
Comment by Uncarved Block — 31 Jan 2005 on 8:09 pm | Link
If we have to pay tuition fees or have the cap raised, surely we are entitled to know in writing where every penny we spend is going.

Great petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/breakdownfees/

I really dont get why courses of 5 hours a week cost ast much as those of 35 hours a week.
Comment by louise — 24 Apr 2007 on 9:41 am | Link
If we have to pay tuition fees or have the cap raised, surely we are entitled to know in writing where every penny we spend is going.

Great petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/breakdownfees/

I really dont get why courses of 5 hours a week cost ast much as those of 35 hours a week.
Comment by louise — 24 Apr 2007 on 9:41 am | Link

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