“So your choice is annual tuition fees of £9,250 with the Conservatives or annual tuition fees of £0 with Labour,” tweeted Luke Pollard, the Labour MP for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport. Tuition fees row: education expert warns over graduate earnings Read moreAngela Rayner, Labour’s shadow education secretary, said the move was “a desperate attempt by the Tories to kick the issue into the long grass”. Tuition fees were set to rise from £9,250 to £9,500 next year due to inflation, but May’s decision to freeze them recognises the political difficulty such an increase would provoke. Martin Lewis, the personal finance guru who was a high-profile supporter of the 2012 student loan model, said in a blogpost he was “delighted” with the changes. The freezing of tuition fees also throws into chaos the teaching excellence framework introduced by the government in the last parliament, which rewards universities with good ratings by allowing them to raise fees.

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2017 10:30 UTC