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SOMETIMES it is hard not to feel sorry for Tony Blair. He is lumbered with the student tuition fees crisis because for 25 years successive governments have failed to act over the underfunding of our universities. As a result there is an pounds 11billion shortfall and even Oxford and Cambridge are no longer the world academic force they were.
Clearly something has to give. There is nothing wrong with students paying later in their career for the benefits they reap for their enhanced education. In the USA, where the cost is a great deal higher, they have done it for years. In Australia, similar arrangements have been shown not to deter students from poor families going on to university.See the full content of this document
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