5.
Friday, June 15, 1973
"The only students who will suffer
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if auffering is the right
will be the wealthier students who can afford to pay. And even
they will still be getting a substantial subsidy of roughly $13,000 per year
which comes from the fact that the new full tuition fee will still only be
about 12 percent of the actual cost.'
Explaining the background to the fee increases, which would only
affect new students starting courses next year, Mr. Bailey pointed out that
the fees being charged today
students until 1978
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and which would go on being charged for some
were set 12 years ago.
"No one," he added, "needs to be reminded that in the last 12 years
costs and incomes have risen somewhat. Costs AND incomes."
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He stressed that tuition fees were decided by the universities
themselves, and not by the government or the University and Polytechnic
Grants Committee. The University Councils had to be reasonably convinced
it was the right thing to do before altering them.
Referring to the Joint Universities Committee on Student Finance,
he remarked that it would be fair to say the student aid scheme was managed
mainly by university people and that students who were chosen by the
student unions and not by himself or the Vice-Chancellors
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made up half
of them.
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