The Guardian:
Poor students will be priced out by high tuition fees, warns charity
4 October 2010
Top universities will price out poor students with a five-fold hike to tuition fees if ministers give them free rein over what they charge, an influential education charity warns today. The Sutton Trust study analysed how much 20 universities charge undergraduates from outside the European Union, and how much they charge postgraduates from all countries. Universities are allowed to charge whatever they like to these two groups, so a free market already exists.
The researchers, from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, found that the most prestigious institutions charge twice as much as lower-ranked universities.
This article appeared in The Guardian, on October 4, 2010
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