There was an explosion of taught postgraduate enrolment last year, continuing an upward trend visible since the mid 2010s.
There’s all kinds of reasons why this may have happened – people reconsidered careers and aspirations during lockdown, people invest in training and personal development during an economic downturn, and people have been able to access postgraduate taught course loans (which in England offer up to around £11,000 a year that can be spent on fees or maintenance) since 2017.
For providers, PGT is a valuable and growing source of revenue – in an environment where home undergraduate fees are capped (and falling in
