What’s the right price for a university degree? This is a question Ed Miliband sought to answer this week. He announced a manifesto pledge to cut the university tuition fee cap from £9,000 to £6,000 a year, funded by restricting pension tax relief for higher earners. Yet after a day of press releases, speeches and interviews, we remain little the wiser as to what this will achieve. More...

Since John Henry Newman’s 1885 essay The Idea of a University, there have been continual warnings against universities resembling foundries and treadmills. Cardinal Newman believed that education deserved a more exalted purpose. More...

By Patrick Wintour. Ed Miliband’s pledge to cut annual fees to £6,000 attracts criticism from George Osborne and Vince Cable. More...

By Patrick Collinson. Labour’s planned changes, the current rules and their possible impact on your pension and savings schemes. More...

By Patrick Wintour. Labour would cut fees in England to £6,000 a year and lift student support to £3,800, funded by wealthier students paying higher interest rates. More...

By Lawrence Wakefield and Abby Young-Powell. Some welcome the opportunity to graduate with less debt, while others don’t think the policy goes far enough. More...

By Richard Adams, Lawrence Wakefield and Abby Young-Powell. Labour’s decision to cut annual university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 might have received a mixed reception from policymakers but the move was warmly received by those it would directly affect: tomorrow’s students. More...

By Patrick Wintour. Ed Miliband pledges to lower fees from £9,000 by curtailing pension tax reliefs if Labour is elected, arguing current system of student finance is broken. More...

By James Sloam. Young people are disillusioned with electoral politics and political parties, and feel let down by public policy. Who can blame them? Many young people protested against the Iraq War. It happened, but few would now argue that they were wrong. More...

By Patrick Wintour. Labour leader is expected to say the proposed £3,000-a-year reduction will be paid for by cutting pension tax relief for the wealthy. More...