Facts on Fee Increases.

I have gathered a few facts on the increase in fees and what it holds for future students to build the foundations of my production upon. I find many of these shocking which I feel will reinforce my arguement within my documentary that the increase in fees are wrong.


These are from the Guardian:

"We are not scaremongering when we talk of a lost generation of learners," they write, adding that 70% of colleges are planning to cut courses and 200,000 qualified applicants look set to be denied a place at university this year.

Four out of five young people in England and Wales currently think they will probably go on into higher education, but that figure would drop to just 45% if fees doubled to £7,000 a year, and to a third among those whose with unemployed parents, the poll found.

David Willetts told the Guardian that students should consider fees 'more as an obligation to pay higher income tax' than a debt.

David Willetts