Tuition Fees

Alice Calcraft    For the first time in 8 years, university tuition fees are set to rise. Starting next year, university tuition will cost £9535 a year, which is a £285 increase from the previous fees of £9250 a year.  Announced on Monday 4 November, the rise in fees...

Robert Greenwood    Evaluating the Rising Cost of Tuition and Student Debt in the UK:  In case you missed the headlines recently, there are plans in government to raise tuition fees to £10,500. The blow was softened somewhat with the proposed reintroduction of Maintenance Grants of £3,500 for those who...

Shivani Hindocha Current third year students are perhaps the most disrupted cohort ever. Losing over a year of in-person teaching to a pandemic exacerbated before and after by UCU strikes. So, do they regret making the (very costly) decision to go? Third year Nottingham University student Shivani Hindocha reflects...

The university experience in the past year has been far from what we all imagined. Seminars and lectures have been relegated online, with many having many fewer contact hours than promised. Despite the apparent reduction in teaching, the cost to students remains the same. Nevertheless, there may be reason...

Last week, MPs considered the proposals of a raft of student petitions concerning the refunding of tuition fees. Collectively reaching 980,000 signatories, the petitions advocate a range of compensation options, including the partial or full refund of fees for the 2019/20 and/or 2020/21 academic years....

Asserson, an international law firm, have launched a website for students who wish to claim a refund for the teaching time lost due to the UCU strikes. All students affected by the strikes are invited to join the group at https://www.universitycompensation.co.uk/ The class action lawsuit opened by the firm...

The ongoing joke of students is the lack of money they have. However, the image of a pale, laptop lit, skinny student eating their third pot noodle as they do an essay is not all that funny, really. Not when push comes to shove and the reality is that...