More than half of current students would have been put off by high fees

Wed, 27 Apr 2011

New research suggests that the majority of current undergraduates may not have gone to university under the government’s new fee structure.

A survey of 2,658 final-year students at twenty-four universities in England by High Fliers found that 51 per cent said they would have been put off going to university if they had been subjected to £9,000-a-year tuition fees - the amount most universities are expected to charge from 2012.

Furthermore, the research firm found that students who attended a state school or college before going to university were much more likely to say they would not have gone under the new system than those from private schools .

Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research, said: "This highlights the invidious position that universities have been put in by the government's decision to cut funding for undergraduate teaching from 2012 and replace it with substantially higher student tuition fees."

Labour leader Ed Miliband recently claimed that the new fees system could see up to 36,000 university places put at risk due to a funding shortfall. 
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