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Month: October 2012

  • The cost of the Government’s reforms of the financing of higher education

    25 October 2012 by John Thompson and Bahram Bekhradnia

    This report analyses the evidence of the cost of the Government’s reforms to the funding of higher education effective from this year. It concludes that the cost will be much higher than has been admitted, both because repayments of loans is likely to be much lower than claimed and also…

  • The cost of the Government’s reforms of the financing of higher education

    25 October 2012

    In a report published today (25 October 2012), the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) concludes that the Government's assessment of the cost of its HE policies, and in particular the Resource Accounting and Budgeting cost (the net cost to the Government of the loans that it makes), still depends on…