Cut Tuition Fees and Boost Adult Education, Says Think Tank

The Government should cut the tuition fee cap for all university courses from £9,250 to £6,000 as part of a radical overhaul of post-18 education and training, a think tank has recommended. In its report published on Wednesday, the EDSK noted that many colleges and independent higher education (HE) providers are already expected to deliver degree-level programmes for £6,000 due to their lower fee cap, which suggests this figure represents an appropriate “baseline” for measuring the costs of delivering post-18—or tertiary—education. Authored by EDSK director Tom Richmond and researcher Eleanor Regan, the report notes that “£6,000 a year is also a significant uplift from the £4,753 awarded per student for educating 16 to 19-year-olds, meaning that there is no reason why high-quality courses cannot be delivered with this lower fee cap.”...