It is understood Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will outline an inflation-linked rise in university tuition fees from next year.
The Education Secretary is expected to announce a tuition fee rise in England for the first time in eight years.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson was expected to make a statement to MPs in the House of Commons The blueprint from UUK, published in September, warned that teaching funding per student in England was at its “lowest point since 2004” and the current £9,250 fee would have been worth £5,924 in 2012/13.
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