Top-Up Fees: Potential and Consequences

5th June 2000

"Where is the money to come from? The only way in which colleges
as individual institutions could cover the costs would be to continue
to charge fees to undergraduates even when they were no longer
reimbursed by the state. I believe that policy would be little short of
disastrous in terms of access and it would be a very odd outcome for
the Government that I support to produce."

Lord Plant of Highfield, P.162 Hansard 12.11.97, HLv

Background
Have means-tested tuition fees been redistributive in the UK?
Top-up Fees: The Problems with Means-Testing
- 3.1 Inefficiencies
- 3.2 The UK's Socio-economic Structure
- 3.3 The Pit-falls of using Parental Income
Could increased endowments provide the finance for scholarships?
Could loans provide a safety-net for a means-tested top-up fees system?
- 5.1 The deterrent effect of debt
- 5.2 The effect of students' debt-minimisation strategies
  - 5.2.1 Localisation
  - 5.2.2 Students working through their degree
  - 5.2.3 Students' choice of subject
- 5.3 The Effect of Debt on Employment
The advantage of state funding
Can the University reject top-up fees?

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