SLASHING university tuition fees from £9,250 to £6,500 would hit the poorest students hardest and benefit the highest earners, uni chiefs insisted yesterday.
Dame Janet Beer, president of Universities UK, said a cut in fees would mean institutions would be forced to limit places and mean graduates on the highest incomes paid less back.
It comes amid fevered speculation of a fees shake up ahead of publication of a review into higher education funding in England.
She told Radio 4’s Today programme: “Students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds would be the hardest hit by a cut to fees and also from the limitation on student places, and the primary beneficiaries (would be) mid to high-income graduates because the highest earners would benefit the most.
“We would have less resource to support the students who we need to attract into university.”
She added: “The Augar review would seem to me to be a very missed opportunity unless we use it as a moment where we can restore more numbers to higher education, specifically part-time and matures who are almost entirely missing at the moment.
“I’m not confident that the Treasury has money to make up the difference and also the ideas being floated currently do nothing to address the cost of living while studying.
“We know that this is a more significant concern to undergraduates than tuition fees because at the moment poorer students come out with higher debt because they have to borrow live.
Whereas more middle-class students benefit from family support.”
Former Education Secretary Justine Greening also branded the plans as “regressive” and “bad for social mobility”.
She blasted: “I think it’s a terrible plan. If you have a cap on numbers of students, we know that the ones who lose out are the ones from low-income families.
“I think it’s regressive because the people who will end up paying less in student fees will be those from the better-off families who are more likely to go to university.”
A Department for Education spokesman said: “Students are rightly concerned about value for money – that’s exactly why we are looking at how we can reform the whole system to make it fairer.
“We have already taken steps to make the system better for graduates, including by increasing the repayment threshold.
But we are open-minded in our approach, and it’s important that we don’t pre-empt the outcomes of the review.”
Theresa May ordered the Augur review into higher education in England, which is due to be published early next year.
Leaks from the report suggest tuition fees could be slashed under plans to reform the system.
The move could see student numbers capped or leave universities with less income meaning they will be able to offer fewer places.
Experts fear it would hit the poorest students hardest because unis may cut their bursaries.
Jeremy Corbyn has put the PM under pressure on fees by pledging to abolish them.
The shortfall in cash for universities could be made up by the Treasury but it would cost around £3billion.
The Commons Education committee warned earlier this month too many graduates are being left with large debts for too little payback.
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Their report found almost half of recent graduates were not working in graduate jobs in 2017.
The excessive pay of some university vice chancellors was also highlighted.
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