UK students should pay nearer to the £24,000 a year in fees that foreign students are charged, university bosses have claimed. Currently UK students pay £9,250 per year for tuition. That amount has been frozen for a decade.
Universities in Wales can charge you up to £9,000 a year for undergraduate tuition. International students (including EU students) pay between £12,000 and £22,000 per year for an undergraduate course.
However a number of university bosses say that amount isn't enough. Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor at the University of Sunderland and a former permanent secretary at the UK Government's Department for Education, told The Sunday Times : "You cannot expect to run universities on a fee level of £9,250 a year, which by 2025 will be worth around £6,000 in real terms because of inflation. If you want to keep running universities even at the level we have now you have to increase the tuition fee at some point."
