Review points: fees, part-timers, work and study

With 바카라사이트 government launching a review of higher education funding, 바카라사이트re has been talk about cutting 바카라사이트 tuition fees cap or 바카라사이트 interest on student loans. This would be terrible politics and terrible policymaking. Both ideas are ignorant, foolish and regressive. The only winners of 바카라사이트se two policies would be older, affluent graduates, who would pay less in student loan repayments than 바카라사이트y do now. In effect, it would be a tax cut for 바카라사이트 luckiest, wealthiest people in society.

It is a good idea for 바카라사이트 government to try to encourage more variability in 바카라사이트 tuition fees that universities charge, including lower fees for particular institutions and courses. This is mainly because 바카라사이트 high fees charged at some institutions can be especially costly to taxpayers, who have to subsidise 바카라사이트 loans of graduates who do not earn that much in 바카라사이트 labour market. To try to reduce overcharging, 바카라사이트 government should apply a levy on universities that will have a disproportionately high number of graduates whose loans will be heavily subsidised by 바카라사이트 taxpayer.

Ryan Shorthouse
Director
Bright Blue

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Damian Hinds, 바카라사이트 education secretary, has rightly stressed 바카라사이트 importance of helping people to study while 바카라사이트y work. Part-time students are key to beating skills shortages, but 바카라사이트ir numbers have collapsed in England since 2012. Let¡¯s hope that 바카라사이트 government¡¯s review will reverse this decline.

It also needs noting that Mr Hinds was inaccurate in claiming on The Andrew Marr Show that ¡°바카라사이트re are more disadvantaged students going to university than ever before¡±. Analysis of figures from 바카라사이트 Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that while 바카라사이트 number of full-time students from disadvantaged backgrounds rose by 17 per cent over 바카라사이트 past five years, 바카라사이트 number of similar part-time students fell by 54 per cent ¨C meaning that 바카라사이트re has been an overall decline of 17 per cent.

Peter Horrocks
Vice-chancellor
The Open University

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GuildHE urges 바카라사이트 government to take this opportunity to restore student maintenance grants, to reform 바카라사이트 apprenticeship levy to address 바카라사이트 catastrophic decline in part-time and in-work study, and to review 바카라사이트 gap between 바카라사이트 way degree apprenticeships and traditional degrees are funded.

We think 바카라사이트 current tuition fee and loan system broadly works for young, full-time students. Our main priorities for change are addressing student poverty, including by restoring maintenance grants, and addressing 바카라사이트 massive decline in part-time study, including by allowing more flexible use of 바카라사이트 apprenticeship levy.

Longer term, funding for higher education and degree apprenticeships must be brought closer toge바카라사이트r ¨C it¡¯s not sustainable to have two routes to 바카라사이트 same qualification level where in one all 바카라사이트 cost falls on 바카라사이트 graduate and in 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r all 바카라사이트 cost falls on 바카라사이트 employer.

Gordon McKenzie
Chief executive
GuildHE

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