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Well student tution fee's have raised their head again and come to bite the Tories in the butt. I would imagine that this topic will run for sometime to come. I am in the process of booking flights,hotels etc to go to my number 2 sons ,Lukas, graduation day so it's a subject close to my heart as it is with Paulb whose daughter is also at Uni but up to 36,000 university places may have to be axed after the final figures for next year's tuition fees were confirmed yesterday.
Three out of four universities plan to set tuition fees at the new maximum level of £9,000 next year, raising huge question marks over the Government's funding plans.
Of the 70 universities to publicly announce what they will charge in 2012, 46 will charge £9,000 for all their courses and a further six will charge £9,000 for their most expensive courses - a total of 74 per cent.
Some 95 per cent of those to declare are planning on charging over £7,500 - which the Government expected to be the average fee. 'Unfair': Labour leader Ed Miliband said the figures highlighted the shambolic nature of the education funding reforms.
It means the average fee next year will fall closer to £8,500. As most of the tuition fees will be paid in student loans funded upfront from Whitehall, the Government could face having to find an extra £450million a year by 2014.
Jon Richards of Unison, said: 'Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds deserve a fair shot at getting into any university in the UK. With the going rate for a degree now at £9,000, the danger is that many will be put off.
Sally Hunt, of the University and College Union, said: 'The Government's fee regime is in complete disarray and its sums clearly do not add up.'It quickly became clear that all English universities would have to charge more than £6,000 a year just to break even, following devastating funding cuts.