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Category: Higher Education

Students beware: Augar Review misfires on intergenerational fairness

Posted 21st June 2019 & a filed under Blog, Higher Education, Intergenerational fairness, Student Loans.

Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, responds to the recently-published Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding, and concludes that, in spite of many positive recommendations, students will still be dealt a poor hand

University vice-chancellor pay: still a scandal

Posted 19th February 2019 & a filed under Blog, Finance, Higher Education, Student Loans.

Are governing bodies demonstrating that they are heeding calls for pay restraint in the higher education sector? Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, investigates

Is going to university worth the cost? Not always, suggests new research

Posted 4th December 2018 & a filed under Blog, Education, Employment, Higher Education, Student Loans, Young people.

New research based on the Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) dataset sheds more light on the complex question of whether obtaining a university degree is worth the financial cost of doing so. David Kingman reports

MPs warn Brexit could harm Britain’s universities

Posted 3rd May 2017 & a filed under Blog, Brexit, Higher Education.

Britain’s higher education sector – crucial to the prospects of young people and to Britain’s economy as a whole – stands to suffer as a result of Brexit, according to a recent report. David Kingman investigates

The “cock-up theory” of student debt

Posted 13th April 2017 & a filed under Blog, Education, Government spending, Higher Education, Young people.

Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, deplores the casual misguidedness of policy-makers that is responsible for the plight of debt-burdened graduates

State-funding our students makes economic sense

Posted 12th April 2017 & a filed under Blog, Government spending, Higher Education, Student Loans.

A new paper by Dr Kevin Albertson makes the strong economic case that the government should cover the cost of university tuition fees – because the nation earns that money back. Antony Mason explains

Government announces plans to sell off pre-2012 student loans

Posted 14th February 2017 & a filed under Blog, Higher Education, Student Loans.

David Kingman looks at the government’s plans to dispose of a part of its student loan book, and the troubling implications for graduates with loans outstanding

Apprenticeship levy could do more harm than good, warns IFS

Posted 7th February 2017 & a filed under Blog, Education, Employment, Higher Education, Young people.

David Kingman looks at the criticisms of the government’s new apprenticeship levy made recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Parents Against Student Debt

Posted 1st February 2017 & a filed under Blog, Higher Education, Intergenerational Justice, Student Loans, Young people.

IF supporter and recent graduate Jessica Jones shows the necessity of the “Parents Against Student Debt” campaign, suggesting what parents can do to respond to the poor deal that students face – and explaining the unfairness for the benefit of parents who may be unaware of the situation

Will student debt drive people apart?

Posted 30th January 2017 & a filed under Blog, Higher Education, Student Loans.

IF co-founder Angus Hanton believes that the new, high levels of student debt will aggravate some of the old fault lines in society – and create new ones

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