New universities in fees warning: Government faces fresh assault on top-up plan

In the wake of calls yesterday by five top research universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, for the right to charge and keep the full pounds 3,000 fee, new university vice-chancellors today make clear that they are also prepared to levy the maximum sum if the proposal, to be announced in tomor...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author Lucy Ward and Polly Curtis
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 25.11.2003
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Colleges & universities
Fees & charges
Tuition
UK
United Kingdom
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Summary:In the wake of calls yesterday by five top research universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, for the right to charge and keep the full pounds 3,000 fee, new university vice-chancellors today make clear that they are also prepared to levy the maximum sum if the proposal, to be announced in tomorrow's Queen's Speech, survives wide opposition among MPs. Labour backbenchers, encouraged by the bloody nose suffered by the government over foundation hospitals, promise a fierce fight against allowing universities to raise the maximum fee from the current pounds 1,125 to pounds 3,000 a term, and to change the rules to allow students to pay after graduation instead of beforehand. Dr [Malcolm McVicar] argues that the government's proposals will result not in differential fees but in "a standard fee of pounds 3,000, everywhere", as new universities seek ways to ensure good teaching is recognised and funded.
ISSN:0261-3077