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Average Home Postgraduate Taught tuition fees
There’s a great deal of variety in the amount that UK universities charge Home students for postgraduate taught programmes but a look at the average over time shows a clear trend. Excluding clinical programmes, by our measure the average tuition fee in 2021 was 80% higher than it was in 2012. ————————Based on data from…
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Inflation and the Postgraduate Master’s Loan
The maximum English Postgraduate Master’s Loan available has risen steadily since it was launched in 2016 but that hasn’t been enough to stop its real terms value being eroded by inflation since the pandemic. The maximum loan for postgraduate students starting in 23/24 is currently worth £9,293 in October 2016 terms, a decline of 7%…
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Updated modelling: Inflation and the English UG tuition fee cap
An update to our modelling of the English undergraduate tuition fee cap’s real terms value decline, based on the Bank of England’s latest CPI forecasts. The BoE expects inflation to fall faster this year than it previously thought, though news today that CPI in March unexpectedly remained the wrong side of 10% may give pause…
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UCAS January deadline statistics show drop in UK 18 year old application rate
This week’s release of UCAS’s January deadline statistics confirmed some alarming news. Total UK applications submitted have fallen in spite of rising demographics, lowering the 18 year old application rate for the first time in many years. Examined by the tariff group, higher tariff institutions are continuing to receive ever higher shares of the total…