At the moment, university students, or very often their parents, pay upfront fees of up to 1,125 a year for their tuition. Less well-off families pay a reduced fee or nothing. The Government plans to scrap this system from 2006. No-one will pay upfront fees. Instead, the tuition fee will be paid back over many years once a graduate is earning.
But there is a catch. The Government is also proposing that the maximum charge to students should be increased to 3,000 a year. The National Union of Students claims that this will discourage many would-be students from going on to higher education. It says they could leave university with debts of up to 30,000.
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