- 01 Oct 2017 14:43
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Theresa May has called for a freeze on tuition fees and has cancelled the plans for raising the maximum charge on tuition fees from £9,250 to £9,500 for 2018-2019. Theresa also wants to raise the minimum payback threshold from earning £21,000 ($28134.96) per year to £25,000 ($33494.00) per year. She hopes from this to bring some relief to the worrying students in England that are "just about managing".
May is doing this after a staunchly defending a policy that raised the charging to £9,000 a year, saying "What we expected to happen is that there was going to be a range, a diversity in the system and that we'd see Universities offering perhaps offering shorter courses, that we'd see Universities offering courses under the maximum fee, that hasn't happened, we've got to look at it again."
Read about it for yourself here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41456555 - BBC News
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 76181.html - The Independant
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 47746.html - London Evening Standard
Would love to hear some thoughts or discussions on this, this is my first posted topic so go easy on me ;D
May is doing this after a staunchly defending a policy that raised the charging to £9,000 a year, saying "What we expected to happen is that there was going to be a range, a diversity in the system and that we'd see Universities offering perhaps offering shorter courses, that we'd see Universities offering courses under the maximum fee, that hasn't happened, we've got to look at it again."
Read about it for yourself here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41456555 - BBC News
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 76181.html - The Independant
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 47746.html - London Evening Standard
Would love to hear some thoughts or discussions on this, this is my first posted topic so go easy on me ;D