by CDBU Admin | Oct 8, 2018 | Guest blog, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Discussions about student funding don’t have to revolve around tuition fees, argue Josie McLellan, Richard Pettigrew and Tom Sperlinger. Instead we should start by asking fundamental questions about the purpose of a university education Debates about...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 27, 2018 | News round-up, Uncategorized
Universities now hold three times as much in reserves as they did in 2011-12, just before higher tuition fees were introduced Universities sit on £44bn after tuition fee increase The Times, 27/04/2018, Rosemary Bennett Universities are ‘hoarding’ £44 billion of...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 21, 2018 | CDBU Updates, Tuition fees
It turns out the CDBU were right about tuition fees Prime minister Theresa May has admitted that tuition fees in England are among the highest in the world. It’s good to see an acknowledgement from government of something that we first drew attention to three years...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 17, 2018 | News round-up, Tuition fees
It’s been a busy week in higher education. We’ve rounded up some of the most interesting stories, from a possible cut to tuition fees to the revelation that a diploma mill in Pakistan has been selling degrees to British nationals Universities expect sharp...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 3, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act, TEF, Tuition fees
No. 2 in a series of guest posts by G.R. Evans The Secretary of State, introducing the Higher Education and Research Bill at the Second Reading, urged that ‘the teaching excellence framework is such an important part of the Bill’. But the Bill does not mention it....