Hutton: cut fees to ?3K for poorest

Will Hutton, an Observer columnist who is also principal of Hertford College, Oxford, said reducing 바카라사이트 standard ?9,000 undergraduate tuition fee by two-thirds to pre-2012 levels would significantly help to increase 바카라사이트 number of poorer students at university.

Writing in his new book, How Good We Can Be: Ending 바카라사이트 Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country, Hutton argues that ¡°university access is improving, but only desperately slowly¡±.

¡°One obvious means to persuade kids from poorer homes to apply to university would be to universalise and standardise 바카라사이트 patchwork quilt of access agreement rebates into a standard lower fee for disadvantaged applicants of, say, ?3,000,¡± writes Mr Hutton in 바카라사이트 book.

Mr Hutton is writing in a personal capacity, but has also led a Sutton Trust-backed commission looking into 바카라사이트 impact of ?9,000 tuition fees since 2012.

That commission has highlighted some of 바카라사이트 negatives consequences of increasing fees three years ago, warning of 바카라사이트 impacts on mature students and on working-class male students in particular.

In his new book, Mr Hutton also claims 바카라사이트 introduction of ?9,000 fees is likely to deter many students from applying to university in 바카라사이트 near future, despite applications bouncing back strongly after a slump in 2012.

He says that students have not been put off because 바카라사이트 prospect of repaying about ?45,000 in debt ¡°seems very distant in faraway adulthood¡±.

¡°The reality ¨C a large debt, owed at high, real interest rates, which with 바카라사이트 effect of compound interest will grow bewilderingly quickly ¨C only sets in after university,¡± he says.

¡°As 바카라사이트 experience bites, 바카라사이트 news of 바카라사이트 onerousness of 바카라사이트 new system will start to spread.¡±

In his latest analysis of Britain¡¯s ¡°desperately unequal and unfair society¡±,?Mr Hutton hits out at a ¡°massive squandering of talent¡±, stating that 80,000 15-year-olds receive free school meals a year, but only 20 will go on to study at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford.

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