Students will have to pay £6000 to £9000 for a degree course starting in 2012. Universities will be allowed to charge £6000 or £9000, depending on the extra support for students. Currently students pay £3.200. Students will be able to get a government funded loan to help them pay for course and living costs. They will have to pay it back when they start earning more than £21.000 a year. This has also increased from £15.000. This will affect students who can’t pay their fees upfront. The interest rate will increase by 3%. Students wanting to repay money early will have to pay 5% more.
The increasing costs of tuition fees will replace the public funding which was withdrawn from universities. It’s said that tuition fees must increase in order to maintain decent teaching standards and institutions.
Critics warned that the increase will hit those from middle – class families and make universities unpopular.
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