They called for more transparency about how their £9,250 annual tuition fees were spent, and more information about additional costs including accommodation, books and extracurricular activities such as field trips. Changing the emphasis on university funding | Letters Read moreStudents were also asked about their views on using tuition fees to cross-subsidise their insitutiton. The research found they felt least comfortable with their tuition fees funding teaching on other courses, followed by wider research unrelated to their course and paying for management costs. Most of the interest will be in undergraduate tuition fees, which stand at a hefty £9,250 a year at all but a handful of universities. The government will not seek to match Labour’s promise to axe tuition fees altogether, which the Conservatives regard as unaffordable and regressive.

Source: The Guardian March 13, 2018 14:34 UTC