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Rocketing fees cause University applications from the South East to fall

By James Ledward
Oct 27, 2011 - 7:33:25 AM
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Peter Skinner, MEP

UK Universities are facing their biggest fall in applications for more than 30 years.

Official UCAS figures released earlier this week show that university applications from South East students have dropped by over 8% compared to the same point last year.

The majority of applications to date have been to Oxford, Cambridge and to the Medicine, Veterinary and Dentistry courses.

It has also emerged that one in ten potential students are being put off applying to university, according to a survey by Comres.

Peter Skinner MEP:
“These figures show that the Tory-led Government’s decision to treble tuition fees to £9,000 is putting young people off applying to university. It is unfair that many who have the ability to go to university are being put off from applying because of the high levels of debt that they will face.

“Labour believes that the Government should reverse the corporation tax cut for banks and use the money to help cut fees. That is the difference between Labour, which makes the next generation a priority, and an out of touch Tory-led Government that will restrict opportunity and damage the future of our economy.

“The unfair, unnecessary and unsustainable decision to treble tuition fees to £9,000, while cutting university funding by 80%, is putting many young people off university and threatening economic growth for this country and skills for the future.”


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