Here is our list of universities and how much they intend to charge in tuition fees from next autumn.
Last week it was announced that Welsh universities have been barred from charging maximum fees unless they re-think their plans to encourage students from a poorer background to take up a place at their institution. Jessica Shepherd has written:
All 10 Welsh universities and four of the country's colleges want to charge annual fees of more than £4,000 by autumn 2012. But to do this, they had to submit plans to subsidise more low-income students. These plans had to be endorsed by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. However, the quango has told the 14 institutions their plans were not ambitious enough, and that they must rewrite them if they are to charge higher fees.
A growing number of English universities plan to charge £9,000 per year – the maximum possible. This has raised fears that the government will have to claw back funds from universities – possibly by reducing the number of places on degree courses – if the majority of institutions charge the maximum. It was revealed last month that all 123 universities and university colleges in England have planned on charging £6000 or more.
The latest universities to announce their 2012 tuition fee plans are:
• The University of West London has announced that it will charge a standard fee of £7,500. Those taking specialist art courses will be charged £7,700 and those planning on specialist music or performance courses will face the higher fee of £8,200.
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) became the first Russell Group university to not plan the maximum £9,000 fee for students in 2012 when it announced its fee plans earlier this month. In a narrow vote by the academic board, the institution in the same group as elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, chose £8,500 fees.
MPs voted in December to allow fees for UK students on undergraduate courses to rise from £3,350 a year to £6,000, and £9,000 in "exceptional cases."
But ministers assumed that universities would charge different levels of fees and that the average, across more than 130 institutions, would be £7,500.
The government pays students' tuition fees in the first instance. Graduates pay the government back when they are earning more than £21,000. If the average fee is higher than ministers anticipated, the government will end up paying more up front, and this may not be sustainable.
So far only a handful of institutions (announced so far) have published plans to charge less than the maximum.
Vince Cable, Business Secretary, announced in Parliament:
the introduction of a fee cap of £6,000, rising to £9,000 in exceptional circumstances
Universities that charge more than £6,000 must set out targets to widen their pool of students beyond white, middle-class teenagers. These must be agreed by the government's access watchdog, the Office for Fair Access.
Universities and colleges had until Tuesday 19 April 2011 to submit their access agreements to Offa. They will then assess their agreements and announce all that have been approved by 11 July 2011 - so the fees below are the amount universities are intending to charge. These will be updated as further universities publish their plans.
The latest Guardian University ranking tables were published last week showing that the University of Cambridge had over taken Oxford to take first place on the league table. We have added in the new rankings onto our table and spreadsheets.
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