The government has just announced an above inflation increase to student maintenance and that home undergraduate university students’ tuition fees will increase with inflation. 

Responding to calls from universities to increase tuition fees to solve the higher education funding deficit, Alex Stanley, Vice President Higher Education at the National Union of Students (NUS UK), said:

NUS UK has called the figures an “indictment” of the student funding system 

Responding to the Labour Party’s announcement on higher education and its commitment to reform the student funding system, NUS Vice President Liberation and Equality, Nehaal Bajwa, said:

"Backing down from this commitment is truly disappointing. The Labour Party needs a clear vision that young people and students will turn up for, and cannot take their votes for granted.

"Students and young people are clear about what we want to see in society: a fair and well funded education, where everyone can afford to study across their lifetime; living wages for all and the vision and innovation to respond to the great challenges of our lifetimes. The current system is broken prioritising money over student welfare and education."

A failure to invest in education is a failure to invest in future generations and in a prosperous and fair society.”