After two successive years of increasing university dropout rates — especially rapid among students from the most disadvantaged areas — it is time for the government to reconsider the effect of large student debts upon university accessibility, and thus to re-evaluate the recent replacement of maintenance grants for students from low-income households with additional, burdensome loans.… Read more »
Tag: Higher Education
Widening the lens on British universities: Neoliberalism, price tags and value
The alarming growth of student debts is the most tangible and evocative manifestation of intergenerational injustice in the current system of higher education. But it is only an emblem of a wider process that has increasingly undermined British universities in the last four decades. Rohin Burney-O’Dowd, IF summer intern, investigates
Radical report calls for “comprehensive” universities
Academic selection in higher education comes under fire in a recent paper. David Kingman considers the arguments
IFS: freezing the student loan repayment threshold has made tuition fees much more regressive
David Kingman looks at the findings of a recent report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies on the student loan system in England
General Election 2017: waking up to the youth vote
The Labour Party saw it, and the Conservatives missed it: one thing in the recent election that really made its mark was the youth vote. Liz Emerson, co-founder of IF, explores the early signs of a significant shift