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Article: Top up fees best for poorer students.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- October 24, 2003
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London, October 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - Bigger safety net and flat rate top up fees will help 4 million local college students
16-19 year olds thinking about going to university from poorer families - most of whom attend local colleges rather than schools - will be best served by Government providing
- A bigger safety net, whereby poorer students pay no fees at all but wealthy students pay in full
- A flat rate top-up fee which allows local colleges offering Higher Education to invest as much in their teaching facilities as bigger, more prestigious universities
- Dr John Brennan, AoC Chief Executive comments:
"Around one in five ...