Scots consider raising fees for English students
Press Review 6 April 2005
The Scottish Executive is understood to be considering raising university tuition fees for students from England.
Top up fees
Policy Consultation 17 March 2005
Comments from the Department for Education and Skills, Campaigning for mainstream universities and the Standing Conference of Principals
£300m earmarked for poorer students
Press Review 17 March 2005
Details will be made public today of a £300m package of non-repayable cash which will be offered to universities to help them attract the best students - as a pre-cursor to top-up fees.
Open University warns on fees
Press Review 11 March 2005
The education secretary has been warned that the government's top-up student tuition fees due to come into force next year could hit part time study at the Open University.
Ministers warned over university funding deal
Press Review 10 March 2005
The government has been told that its funding package of £6bn for 2005-06 will not be enough for universities to pay staff adequately.
Finance & Leasing Association
Government Affairs Website
Universities fear tuition fee cashflow crisis
Press Review 22 February 2005
MPs will be told this week that universities face a cashflow crisis unless they receive the income from tuition fees before they have to pay out new bursaries.
Higher education
Policy Consultation 17 February 2005
Comment from Department for Education and Skills, Campaigning for Mainstream Universities, and the Institute of Education.
Kim Howells - higher education minister
Interview 17 February 2005
Kim Howells tells ePolitix.com why he wants a debate about the future of university funding and why he is concerned about the lack of new maths and science undergraduates.
Howells urges debate on university costs
News Article 17 February 2005
As new data points to a looming cash crisis in higher education, the minister responsible said he would regret any reduction of university places for British students.
Universities slam ministers on overseas students
Press Review 9 February 2005
University leaders have accused the government of undermining its own policy to attract more overseas students.
Cambridge issues tuition fees warning
Press Review 31 January 2005
Cambridge University has claimed that increasing tuition fees to £3,000 a year will not safeguard its future.
Year in review: January
News Article 23 December 2004
Cherie’s Christmas decorations were barely down this year when backbenchers decided to pounce on the Labour Party.
Ministers 'to miss university target'
Press Review 14 December 2004
Financial plans for universities, set out by Charles Clarke yesterday, suggest the government will miss its target of getting half of all young people into university by the end of the decade.
Livingstone attacks his own party over tuition fees
Press Review 23 September 2004
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is risking the renewed anger of the Labour leadership by attacking the party's higher education policies.
