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the figures are here
https://fullfact.org/education/have-governments-tuition-fee-reforms-worked/
They too make the point that correlation is not nescessarily causation.
William.-
Tx, looks like a good site :)
But they have changed a LOT, not just made the universities more expensive. Basically it seems they are just writing off a lot of debt by changing the income threshold. For now.
"In 2012 the Coalition raised the cap on tuition fees for undergraduate courses to £6,000 for all universities, and to £9,000 in "exceptional circumstances" —which now 120 universities and conservatoires in England (the vast majority) are charging." Sigh note they're all an exception... Queen's here (Russel) has gone up to 6600!
". Instead we can look at the number of English-resident entrants to part-time undergraduate courses in the UK, which fell 48% from 226,000 in 2010/11 to 118,000 in 2013/14. " I saw a lot of people complaining on the Open Uni pages when this happened...not that the OU could do anything about it. Their grants got cut.
JWestland
That seems extremely counter-intuitive to me.
Who did the research that tuition fees equals more people signing up? I've already no idea how I am going to afford wee man's fees in xx years times.