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Friday, June 1, 1973
"The government has suggested to the universities that fees should
in future be reviewed at regular intervals, possibly in relation to the
four-year period used for calculating university grants, so that the
universities' income from fees remains appropriate to the general level of
grants."
"While a phased introduction has been accepted in the case of this
particular revision, it has been decided that any increases resulting
from future reviews will not be phased," the spokesman added.
He emphasised that the government student finance scheme would
continue to operate with the objective that any student unable to meet
current or future levels of fees would be heavily subsidised.
"The impact of the increased fees will therefore be confined to
students coming from families well able to afford a more realistic, but
still very small, percentage of the total cost of their higher education
financed from public funds."
The spokesman said that government recurrent grants to the universities already cost $98 million for the current financial year, and as student
enrolment rises the cost to public funds could be expected to increase substantially in the next quadrennium starting from July 1, 1974.
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