UK: Postgraduate fee hike warning

UK universities are raising their fees for home and European Union postgraduate students sharply, a survey suggests, prompting warnings about access to academia and other professions, writes John Morgan for Times Higher Education.

The National Survey of UK Tuition Fees for the coming 2011-12 academic year indicates that rises in taught postgraduate fees for home and EU students outstrip increases for non-EU postgraduates and undergraduates. Malcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire, said: "Postgraduates can't access fees loans or maintenance loans and there is the real danger that if fees go up significantly, British postgraduates will be priced out of the market."
Full report on the Times Higher Education site