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More fees, please
11 February 2010
The Independent Review of Higher Education Funding is at last underway but no one is quite sure what vice-chancellors and politicians really think about fees. Policy Exchange will bring the debate out of the shadows. To mark the launch of our new report on the future of fees for undergraduate students, we would like to invite you to share in a debate about the big issues.

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Slashed budgets and under-funding threatens quality of UK universities
11 February 2010
The Government must raise the cap on top-up fees to avoid a serious deterioration of quality in our universities a new report from think tank Policy Exchange today recommends. More Fees Please? warns that with the Government’s student loan debt expected to rocket to £55 billion by 2018, the Treasury will not be able to afford a rise in fees without a radical change to the system of student support. The report recommends that students from the wealthiest households are removed from the public student loans scheme, and offered a loan from a regulated private loan scheme at a lower than commercial rate of interest instead.