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Could students pay their way through university with a graduate tax?
Gary Gibbon blogs on how the coalition government is giving serious thought to introducing a graduate tax, rather than a big rise in tuition fees.
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Social Affairs correspondent Victoria Macdonald describes how universities are reacting to the Browne review into higher education.
A-level students whose grades do not match up to university offers are facing a tough fight for the few placements freed up through clearing.
Gary Gibbon blogs on how the coalition government is giving serious thought to introducing a graduate tax, rather than a big rise in tuition fees.
As Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms he will abstain on his own measure to reform university funding, Gary Gibbon hears from one senior Lib Dem that getting its MPs in line is like “herding frogs into a wheel barrow”.
Gary Gibbon looks at the floor, and ceiliing, for tuition fees following Lord Browne’s review of university funding.
Jon Snow asks if the age of protest is over despite the ongoing unfairness in the world – from the lack of equal pay for women, to the threats to university funding.
Even sceptics acknowledge that reaction they’ve seen among young voters to the tuition fee reduction announcement is stunning.
It’s rare that the government serves up a truly astonishing statistic. But the latest affordable housing stats certainly qualify, writes Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
Thousands of officers on duty in central London in a bid to keep the streets calm as protesters march against the goverment’s plans for higher education.
The Government denies plans to let wealthy parents pay higher fees to secure their children a place at university, insisting that access must be based on “ability to learn, not ability to pay”.
As the Government wins a vote to treble university tuition fees, violence flares across Whitehall. Alex Thomson says that nine police officers and scores of protesters are hurt.
Police officers have been injured and protesters arrested during demonstrations against tuition fees. MPs have voted to increase the cap on student fees to £9,000 in England.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is facing a major rebellion over tuition fee rises after failing to persuade all his MPs to accept the policy.
Two senior Liberal Democrat MPs consider resigning from their positions in protest over plans to increase university tuition fees.
FactCheck has seen some some excellent number-crunching by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the government’s proposals which found that the rich will be better off than they would have been if ministers had adopted Lord Browne’s recommendations.