English universities have announced plans to charge more than the current £9,000 tuition fee limit next year. Credit: PA
A number of English universities have announced plans to charge more than the current £9,000 tuition fee limit next year, before the Government has officially given the green light.
The universities of Durham, Kent and Royal Holloway are already listing tuition fees on their websites as £9,250 for students starting undergraduate courses next September.
Under proposals still to be laid before Parliament, institutions offering high-quality teaching would be able to raise fees in line with inflation inautumn 2017.
Plans to tie teaching quality to tuition fees were first announced by thenChancellor George Osborne in last year's summer budget.
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) said: "Universities advertising increased fees before the law has even been changed is just another blight on the sorry debacle that is the Government's plan for higher education."
