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Lee Elliot Major writes about the need for new financial arrangements for universities to uphold the principle that a university education should be accessible to all. ... Read more...
21 January 2025
Free Higher Ed wouldn't enhance equity: students are disproportionately from high-income households, write Ghazala Azmat and Stefania Simion. ... Read more...
12 March 2018
An overhaul of university admissions processes – including an end to making offers based on predicted A level grades and a review of personal statements – is being urged in a new Sutton Trust resea... Read more...
20 December 2017
Article by Gill Wyness Given that twenty years have passed since the introduction of fees in the UK, we now have the opportunity to look at the evidence. In a new Centre for Global Higher Education working ... Read more...
07 December 2017
Article by Gill Wyness In a recent paper, co-authored with Richard Murphy, from the University of Texas at Austin, and Judith Scott-Clayton, from Teachers College, Columbia University, we looked at the cons... Read more...
05 December 2017
But there will be voices calling to keep the current system in place - and the Department for Education will be unlikely to provide any propulsion for change. A report this week from the Centre for Global High... Read more...
01 December 2017
England, which used to provide tuition-free public universities, switched to a tuition system in 1998, and has raised fees several times since then. Economists Gill Wyness, Richard Murphy and Judith Scott-Clay... Read more...
02 November 2017
Economists Gill Wyness, Richard Murphy and Judith Scott-Clayton studied the impact of getting rid of free college. What they found might prove a shock to Sanders supporters: The analysis shows that since the m... Read more...
01 November 2017
31 October 2017
30 October 2017
Yet, according to economists Gill Wyness, Richard Murphy and Judith Scott-Clayton, who have studied this British system, it does not work so badly. The authors focus on three dimensions: the accessibility of s... Read more...
Article by Gill Wyness, Richard Murphy and Judith Scott-Clayton The question of who should pay for higher education continues to be hotly debated across the world. This column uses the case of the English h... Read more...
21 October 2017
Gill Wyness, a senior lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said there might be logic in this approach given that universities were arguably being incentivised at the moment... Read more...
05 October 2017
The government has commissioned independent advisers on migration (the Migration Advisory Committee) to complete a detailed assessment of the social and economic impact of international students... Read more...
04 September 2017
According to Sandra McNally, professor of economics at Surrey University, the Conservatives’ figures are misleading. This is because the “per pupil figure” was frozen from 2010 to 2011 and ag... Read more...
27 May 2017
Article by Gill Wyness With UK tuition fees now among the highest in the world, but benefits from having a degree remaining substantial, choosing the right university has never been more important for young... Read more...
09 December 2016
Gill Wyness, lecturer in the economics of education at the UCL Institute of Education, said that St John's students would welcome the funding but warned that a move towards support coming from universities rather than th... Read more...
14 April 2016
The study, Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK, published by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, finds that, five years after university, grad... Read more...
14 February 2016
In a recent discussion paper for the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, Stephen Machin, professor of economics at University College London, and Richard Murphy, assistant professor of economics a... Read more...
13 August 2015
Article by Gill Wyness There were a surprising number of announcements relating to higher education in George Osborne's budget this week. One of the most controversial was the announcement that university maintenance gr... Read more...
10 July 2015
One of the reasons for this, according to Gill Wyness, a researcher in education policy at the centre for economic performance at the London School of Economics and a lecturer at the University College London Institute o... Read more...
11 June 2015
Universities spend huge amounts of money on bursaries and scholarships - over £400m in 2014. Yet there is no evidence that the level of financial support offered to students by institutions has any impact on their ... Read more...
10 June 2015
The Conversation is fact checking political statements in the lead-up to the May UK general election. Statements are checked by an academic with expertise in the area. A second academic expert reviews an anonymous copy o... Read more...
28 April 2015
University financing has again emerged as a key battleground issue in the 2015 General Election. Should fees be regulated lower and if so, how will the cost be financed? Gill Wyness explores these questions. Published... Read more...
21 April 2015
Fees paid by growing numbers of overseas postgraduates studying in the UK have helped to subsidise additional places for domestic learners. That is among the findings of a new paper by Stephen Machin, professor of econom... Read more...
03 October 2014
Top universities could raise their fees five-fold if ministers give them free rein, says Sutton Trust Top universities will price out poor students with a five-fold hike to tuition fees if ministers give them free rein ... Read more...
04 October 2010