Funding UK higher education: why we shouldn't copy Australia

By Gill Wyness and Richard Murphy. Adopting the Australian tuition fee system could result in poorer students staying away from expensive courses. A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) recommends that UK policymakers pay much closer attention to Australia's "advanced" university funding system, which shares many of the features of the UK system, but at considerably lower taxpayer expense. More...