Students abandon education over ConDem fees

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laresMon 30/01/12 11:44

"University applications from UK students for the first year of higher tuition fees are down by 8.7%, according to figures from the admissions service. With fees rising to up to £9,000 per year, the impact has been biggest for England's universities - down by 9.9%.

In Scotland, where students do not pay tuition fees, there was a fall of 1.5%. But Universities UK said the "dip is far less dramatic than many were initially predicting". The figures published by the UCAS admissions service show that by the 15 January deadline there were 462,507 applications for courses beginning in September.

This represented a 8.7% drop in applications from students in the UK - but an increase in overseas applications meant that the overall figure was 7.4% lower than at the same point last year. Applications from students from other European Union countries, who would also be affected by the fee hike, decreased sharply - by 11.2%. But overall figures were buoyed by a continuing increase in applications from outside the EU, up by 13.7%, particularly from countries in the Far East."

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