Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has announced that his party would lower fees as of September 2016 if elected, something he said “will benefit those starting courses next year” and “will benefit those already at university”.
Apparently many students would welcome this change in policy and it would potentially help make higher education more accessible to poorer students, so I am told (although £6,000 is no small amount either). It is unclear who really benefits from this lower cap; after all how do well funded universities now feel about this toing and froing regarding funding? Surely, they will only want this to go ahead if state funding is protected and that they can be sure that it would be sustainable funding.
Before £9,000 tuition fees were even introduced much was said about how this would stop people going to University. However the figures have shown that higher education fees did not stop people applying to Higher Education Institutions, in fact the applications continued to roll in and places got snapped up, the result of which was well funded Universities.
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