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Call for students to pay more
As if it isn’t already expensive enough!
- 24th September 2009
A newly published report is calling for an increase in tuitions fees of £5,000 – adding to the burden of law students who already face mounting debts.
A newly published report is calling for an increase in tuitions fees of £5,000 – adding to the burden of law students who already face mounting debts. The report says students should also be given fewer grants and pay loans at a higher interest rate.
The report by the CBI Higher Education Task Force is effectively calling for students to pay a greater proportion of the growing costs of higher education, effectively giving students a triple-whammy of escalating fees, increased debts and loan repayments and fewer grants.
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"effectively giving students a triple-whammy of escalating fees, increased debts and loan repayments and fewer grants"
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Student leaders are reportedly ‘furious’, with NUS President Wes Streeting saying: “At a time of economic crisis, when many hard working families are struggling to support their offspring through university, I am astonished that the CBI should be making such offensive recommendations,” he said. “Students are already leaving university with record levels of debt, while graduate job prospects are at an all time low. Instead of recommending that students are fleeced even more than they already are, the CBI should start looking at how they might put something back into the system themselves.”
Law students can, however, take a little comfort from the report’s proposal that more businesses should work with universities to sponsor students, provide financial support to new graduates and offer more opportunities for placements and work experience.
