Universities around the country are ignoring the fees plan and will charge the full £9,000 when it comes into play in 2012
Some of the worst universities throughout England are planning to charge the full fees amount of £9,000. Although ministers announced that the normal fee amount would be an average of £6,000, the majority of the bottom 20 universities have snubbed this and will end up charging more than £7,500.
The plan from the government that universities take more poor, disabled, or ethnic minority students looks ominous, with the Office for Fair Access not having the legal powers needed to enforce universities to do so.
The new fees programme has put a lot of pressure onto universities, with the new fees not starting to be paid back until 2015, creating a black hole of around £1bn. Therefore this may mean that ministers have to axe 38,000 university places to cut costs and bring them back in line with the Treasury forecasts. There are still only a hand full of graduate jobs, and with apprenticeships becoming more common universities are going to be hard pushed to persuade students who want to graduate with a degree the benefits. With the average graduate who takes a course with fees around £9,000 leaving university with a graduate debt of up to £80,000.
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