![]() The result is that the £9,250 tuition fee has shrunk to be worth just £6,500 after adjusting for inflation. Meanwhile, the government’s freezing of undergraduate tuition fees since 2016 has squeezed the funding for institutions. ![]() Recent changes by the Conservatives have greatly increased loan repayments by future middle- and lower-earning graduates, by bringing down the starting point for repayments and extending repayment terms from 30 to 40 years. Minouche Shafik, the president of the London School of Economics, and other vice-chancellors are among those pressing for a bipartisan commission, “rather than make it up on the hoof”, in the words of one. ![]() ![]() In the longer term, university leaders say they want an independent review to address the financial problems facing higher and further education, similar to the Dearing review in 1997 and the Browne review in 2010 that preceded fundamental reforms. ![]()
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