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Tuition Fees and Applications for Degrees - New Evidence
1st April 2015
Increases in tuition fees have a negative effect on university applications, particularly for courses with lower expected salaries after graduation. The number of students attending university also falls when fees increase. But there is no evidence of a larger reduction in attendance for students from ethnic minority backgrounds or from communities with lower rates of participation in higher education.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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