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The next spending review seems likely to include a mechanism for linking students' university fees to inflation, immediately prompting a rise to over £10k per year, but this is just papering over the cracks temporarily.
The growing financial crisis that has beset UK Higher Education in the last decades will not be solved (or even really alleviated) by tinkering with fees.
A wholesale reform of university sector financing is required. Until then the crisis will continue!
#universities
h/t FT
@pthane@toot.wales@ChrisMayLA6
I went to college in 1970 on a full grant. The economy was struggling but it was accepted that the country needed teachers, medics, engineers, architects... and, yes, writers, artists, actors, directors too. And in order to get a sufficient supply of them of decent quality there had to be grants so smart people from poor families could study. Of course I'm grateful for the benefits it brought me but more than that I think my work as a teacher was valuable to society.
@RussCheshire
Agreed; until we have a clear & defensible position that university education is of extensive social good for the UK, we will be stuck with a logic that sees the student paying for all or most of the university costs..... which I've explored at length here for @NWBylines
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/education/who-should-pay-for-students-to-go-to-university/
