According to the government, Students in England will pay more for their university courses with tuition fees rising as high as £9,535 next year making it the first increase in eight years.
This is coming as Universities have been clamouring for fees – their primary source of income – to increase and ease the pressure on their budgets
Westminster is in charge of setting fees for England – in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland they are set by the devolved governments
As it stands, some students will also be able to borrow more to pay their living costs from next autumn.
But Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has instructed universities to do more to aid disadvantaged students
Meanwhile, Zarah Sultana, the independent Map for Coventry South reacted to the government’s decision by tagging it “wrong” in a post on X, contending that University students “should not have to pay tuition this year, or any year.”
“It’s time to abolish tuition fees and cancel student debt because education is a public good, not a commodity,” she had posted.
Ellie Chowns, the Green MP for Noth Herefordshire had also reacted sayinb that tuition fees have “forced universities to prioritise profit over education and put many at risk of bankruptcy”, adding that students who take student loans “face extortionate interest rates.”
