Labour is poised today to announce the first rise in university tuition fees in eight years, setting them on course to exceed £10,000. The Mail has more.
Amid fears of a growing financial crisis among universities, the Government is expected to unveil a hike in charges for students from September.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is due to make a statement to the House of Commons later this afternoon.
Tuition fees have remained frozen at £9,250 in England since 2017, but university leaders have recently been calling on the Government to help institutions struggling financially.
Due to rampant inflation in recent years, universities have seen the value of domestic tuition fees fall.
This has left them increasingly reliant on foreign students, who can be charged significantly more.
According to the Telegraph, Ms. Phillipson will announce an increase in tuition fees in line with inflation.
Previous hikes in tuition fees have been linked to the inflation measure known as RPIX, which excludes mortgage interest payments.
In a report in June, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank suggested that raising the tuition fee cap to match RPIX inflation would see fees rise by 2.1% to £9,450 in 2025 and they would reach £10,500 by 2029. …
The Education Secretary previously said Labour had “no plans” to increase fees.
When he was campaigning to be Labour leader in 2020, Sir Keir Starmer pledged to “support the abolition of tuition fees” but has since rowed back on that promise.
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Getting insane.
Tuition fees are on average 3x higher here than in Canada or France.
Student debt levels are well over £40 K per student and going up…..
We need to know what constitutes the tuition fee and how much of it is massive, unneeded, overpaid bureaucracy and regulatory costs. Maybe we need to cut costs first?
My stepson did a three year degree at Cardiff University pre 2020. He got an excellent grade which he has benefitted from but that was more down to his hard work than any input from the University or its lecturers. I was dismayed to hear that at the conclusion of his studies he hadn’t had a one to one with any member of the University at any time in the whole three years.
Wow— that is shocking.
My granddaughter will have £100,000 of debt after five years at medical school, plus £25,000 debt for an intercalated one year’s masters degree. The prospect of being treated like dirt as a “junior doctor” is so unappealing I very sadly suspect Australia will beckon.
if you’re bright enough to be a high flier this country now has little to offer under either Labour or Conservative policies.
PS Strange that Labour, the original party of the working class, first introduced tuition fees and now seeks to raise them to even more eye watering levels unaffordable by most working class students!
Apologies for dropping this here but this is more important than University fees.
The NFU have got a petition up regarding IHT on farmers.
Petitions have limited value I know but as that great national treasure, Tesco likes to put it…
‘Every little helps.’
https://www.campaigns.nfuonline.com/page/160300/petition/1?locale=en-GB
Thanks for that. Signed just now.
Yet another item for which RPI is proposed, even though it has gone out of favour with the ONS. But look at the September figures: CPI = 1.7%, RPI = 2.7%. Years ago my pension scheme used RPI, but later on (before me becoming a pensioner) it changed to CPI.
Foreign Aid being given to the Israeli Military….Priti Patel… keeping it under the radar, is that what taxpayers money is for…
Getting the jist of it yet….
https://fb.watch/vEOY-xIYdG/?startTimeMs=41360
That is an incredible, powerful truth video by George Monbiot— so much so that I’ve typed a transcript of it for those who might not have time to watch it.
George Monbiot’s video transcript of
“PRITI PATEL MADE SHADOW FOREIGN SECRETARY BY KEMI BADENOCH”:
“Guess who’s back?…back again…Shady’s back! Tell a friend. The Priti Patel scandal… she was acting effectively as a 5th columnist, engaging under the radar with a foreign state, and also with commercial interests within that foreign state. And saying ‘We can mobilise the resources of our own state to help you, and I’m not going to tell anyone. Keep this all below the radar. I want to transfer foreign aid which the taxpayers of my country are paying, in the expectation that it goes to help people who are in dire need. I want to transfer this to the Israeli Military, the Armed Forces of another state.’
If you or I did something like that, we would be had for High Treason, or whatever the current charge might be. This is profound subversion of the very basis of the state. The people who claim to be the guardians of the nation, the upholders of patriotism, are actually the biggest subversives in the country.”
Comments from the public on the video:
— “Is the government being ethnically cleansed? How much more humiliation can an Englishman take?”
— “OK, so where is Braverman the Third Witch going to fit in?”
— “Sickening news.”
— “I thought traitors to the country were given life sentences in prison.”
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The question is: What did they offer her in return?
“We will make sure you become UK Prime Minister, but you may have to wait a while, because Teresa is angry that we’ve gone behind her back, after she spent the evening before taking office as UK Prime Minister having supper with the UK Chief Rabbi, receiving her instructions.”
I wonder whether Brigitte Phillipson ever paid back her own university tuition fees loan, or was it all paid for her?
Like Two-Tier the Son of a Toolmaker, she says “She grew up in a deprived part of Washington, in a council house with no upstairs heating.”
“She attended St. Robert of Newminster Catholic School in Washington, and went on to read modern history and modern languages (French) at the University of Oxford, where she was a student at Hertford College, and graduated with upper second-class honours in 2005.”
So no redbrick uni for that deprived keen Labour supporter of the working class.
Well, look on the bright side: It might lessen the numbers of future baristas clogging up the place with nonsense “degrees”.
Every cloud…
Now more than before, possession of some university degrees is not so much a sign of a superior mind, but an indicator of gullibility, the marker of a mug willing to take on crippling debt in return for a worthless qualification.
Good.
Labour voters getting it good and hard.