May is also being warned privately she will never be able to secure support for a cut in fees in the Commons. Greening said the last thing universities needed was a “cack-handed fees reform that means we go backward on social mobility and access”. Johnson said a fees cut would see universities “once again competing for limited amounts of public money against politically more powerful areas”. “The fear with Augar is the advisers around the prime minister will nab the fee cut, but universities are left uncompensated. That would be to the serious detriment of social mobility and it would stop universities from investing in world class facilities.”

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2019 17:37 UTC