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Tuition Fees and Applications for Degrees - New Evidence

Geoff Riley

1st April 2015

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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.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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