University of Sussex to charge students £9,000 a year (From The Argus)
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University of Sussex to charge students £9,000 a year
4:40pm Wednesday 30th March 2011 in News By Emily-Ann Elliott
A university decision to charge top tuition fees of £9,000 has been described as “deeply regrettable” by its student union.
The University of Sussex yesterday announced plans to charge the highest amount allowed by the government from 2012.
The move to nearly treble its current £3,290 fees puts it alongside universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick.
Bosses said the move was necessary due to a government reduction in teaching grants by 80% over the next few years.
They also announced a new scholarship scheme, the First Generation Scholars, to support students whose parents have not been to university, as well as those from low-income families.
However the move was criticised by unions.
Comments(16)
stan bailey
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4:48pm Wed 30 Mar 11
Greenlover
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5:00pm Wed 30 Mar 11
Hove Actually
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5:16pm Wed 30 Mar 11
This is a good move as it will keep the numbers down as who wants 27K of debt to be hairdresser or Maccy Dees burger flipper?
Big Fido
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5:17pm Wed 30 Mar 11
GRANDAD wrote:Congratulations, Grandad from Seaford: You are the first right-wing bigot to post on this item!
Proving expensive to be a leftie these days
Rocker
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5:44pm Wed 30 Mar 11
Student unions have a disconnect from reality...always have,always will.
TheInsider
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6:48pm Wed 30 Mar 11
It will now be too expensive to go to college without seriously considering whether the investment will pay off.
As technology becomes more efficient and affordable, many courses will be delivered remotely and the educational system will change further.
Nothing ever stays the same.
GRANDAD
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7:07pm Wed 30 Mar 11
Big Fido wrote:Thanks Big Fido,
GRANDAD wrote: Proving expensive to be a leftie these daysCongratulations, Grandad from Seaford: You are the first right-wing bigot to post on this item!
Which bit do you disagree with or think untrue, University becoming expensive or Sussex University being renowned for turning out many left leaning students and having left leaning tutors.
Morpheus
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7:11pm Wed 30 Mar 11
rs
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7:58pm Wed 30 Mar 11
stan bailey wrote:"The University of Sussex has been placed 8th in the UK, 16th in Europe and 79th in the world in the Times Higher Education magazine's 2010-2011 World University Rankings."
Deluded or what, they are not premier league
that's pretty good if you ask me.
TheInsider
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8:22pm Wed 30 Mar 11
A mortgage used to be an individual's biggest life cost, now it will be education and no-one buys a house without a contract or the best survey money can buy.
JamboBrighton
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9:30pm Wed 30 Mar 11
27,000 is pocket money to them.
Rocker
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11:50pm Wed 30 Mar 11
No doubt the parents who live for alcohol are the ones complaining the loudest. I've met plenty of them in my life.Grabbing benefits left right and centre yet putting nothing into the pot.
About time things changed.
Angryoldman
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8:04am Thu 31 Mar 11
"All in this together" Yeah right!
When will people in this country grow a pair and stand up to this hateful government? The french dont stand for it. All people do in this country is moan and take it.
Burgess901
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9:07am Thu 31 Mar 11
If all the poor/disadvantaged went to Uni in addition to seemingly every middle class youngster, our degrees would be worth even less than they are at present.
Time to return to 10-15% of school leavers going onto University, the ones who are actually intelligent and capable of academic study, rather than every Tom, Dick and Mustafa who go because all their mates are going, or because they have been told that without a degree you are worthless (which ironically is the value of the degree they barely achieve).
Mind you with very little manufacturing, proper apprenticeships (guaranteed job after) or job security, along with a huge, and rising wealth gap, rising inflation, unrest and disorder, what else can you do?
Work in the service industry for minimum wage, and be grateful your masters have afforded you a job.
dogsdinner
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1:16pm Fri 1 Apr 11
Angryoldman wrote:You didn't study history or british politics then?
To think that the ConDem millionaires club who brought this in, all got their uni for free. They even claim benefits. "All in this together" Yeah right! When will people in this country grow a pair and stand up to this hateful government? The french dont stand for it. All people do in this country is moan and take it.
July 1997 - Education secretary David Blunkett announced the introduction of means-tested tuition fees (to begin in September 1998). The student grant of £1,710 is abolished to be replaced by income-contingent student loans. (That's means testing to you and me)
January 22 2003 - less than two years after pledging not to introduce top-up fees, Labour publishes a white paper setting out proposals allowing universities to set their own tuition fees
That'll be the Labour Party millionaires club who brought this in then. Ooh, that's inconvenient.
GRANDAD says...
4:48pm Wed 30 Mar 11