and in view of the difficulties outlined above, it is not recommended that there should be different fees for
different courses or for comparable courses at different
institutions
ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT OF FEES
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On 24 June 1980, having considered memorandum XCC (80)85 on tuition fees for the 1981-84 triennium, this Council advised and the Governor ordered inter alia "that for the future there should be an annual declaration of the fees to be charged in four years time SO that students enrolling for a course of four years or less would be aware from the date of enrolment of the fees payable throughout the course."
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In
UPGC
The announcing of fees four years in advance would remove, for the majority of students who are committed to their studies, the possibility of financial difficulties arising as a result of unforeseen fee increases in mid-course.
addition,
determines
its recommendations for grants on a triennial basis and draws up its recommendations one year before the beginning of the triennium. In order to do so it needs to know the tuition fee levels up to the end of the forthcoming triennium i.e. four years in advance.
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a higher fee income it
Should it be decided to recover
of recurrent costs from tuition proportion of would be politically sound to announce fees well in advance since this would ensure that the new fees would not apply to existing students.
RECOMMENDATIONS
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Having reviewed the current arrangements for setting tuition fee levels, the Administration recommends
that :-
i)
the target
target tuition fee levels should be set with a view to recovering by 1993-94 the following proportions of the total recurrent costs of the five UPGC funded institutions -
(A) Degree Courses
: 12%
(B) Non-degree Courses : 16%
ii)
the target fee levels
levels should be phased-in as
proposed in paragraph 17;
CONFIDENTIAL