THE: Budget 2015: fees can rise for universities with ‘high-quality teaching’
Published on July 9, 2015
Our response to the Chancellor’s Budget announcements for Higher Education was picked up in Times Higher Education‘s coverage.
Mr Osborne announced that universities with “high-quality teaching” will be allowed to raise tuition fees in line with inflation from 2017-18. The chancellor also confirmed in the Budget that student maintenance grants will be scrapped and switched to loans from 2016-17 onwards for new students. Meanwhile the Government will consult on freezing the loan repayment threshold for five years.
You can read our full response to the Budget here.
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