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Exeter students agree tuition fees may have to rise

‘This House Believes Tuition Fees Should Not Increase’ was defeated by student audience in a university debate
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Tuition fees aren’t the only reason students are stripping

Charlotte Green argues that attributing life choices down to economic need not only devalues women’s decisions to sexually empower themselves, but also undermines the concept of female self-determination
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OFT considers detailed investigation into ‘non-competitive practices’ at universities

Reports of poor value for money, substandard teaching, and price fixing, may lead to university probe
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Working class students under-represented at elite universities

Higher education class gap can’t be explained by grade difference
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Fees should rise with inflation, says Universities UK President

Cap on fees is ‘not sustainable’ according to University of Surrey vice-chancellor
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DEMO2012 VERDICT: ‘A WASTE OF TIME’

NUS publish evaluation lambasting their own demonstration DEMO2012 and admits costs topped £155,000
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Competition gives students chance to win a year’s fees

Manchester Business School student sets up speed-typing competition with a prize of tuition fees
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Sponsor a scholar for sex

Website offering funding to students in exchange for “discreet adventures” exposed
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‘Go-Compare’ style website lauched for university courses

Students can now compare details of every UK university course on new Unistats website
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Universities ‘still advertising vacancies’ days before term starts

‘Prestigious’ universities still advertising places for over 13,500 courses
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The rise in tuition fees is a ‘bloody big roadblock’, says David Miliband

David Miliband discusses the implications for social mobility after the tutition fee increase at a Q&A session at the University of Manchester
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Turning up the heat: tensions rise during Chilean winter

Oliver Johnstone explores parallels between student protests in Chile and here in the UK
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Labour would cut tuition fees by a third, says Miliband

The universities minister and the NUS say the policy will not encourage poorer students to enrol
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Labour, the Slightly-Less-Nasty-Party

Ed Miliband’s tuition fee plan is just a ‘pale imitation of the existing Tory policy’, writes Gareth Lewis
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‘The world is a better place without Saddam – we turned a blind eye to his atrocities for too long’

Alastair Campbell opens up about phone hacking, the coalition government and, inevitably, Iraq
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So how did they vote?

After much agonising we now know how each Liberal Democrat MP cast their deciding vote during last Thursday’s crucial debate. As expected, every Lib Dem at the centre of government, including Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable voted for the rise.
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Coalition help for poorer students ahead of Commons vote

The coalition government proposed to help pay the cost of tuition fees for some of the country’s poorest students ahead of the tuition fee vote last week.
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The state of higher education

“There simply isn’t room in the ivory towers for fifty per cent of school leavers to attend university, and there never was”
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