Is England moving towards a US-style market in higher education?
This week’s Queen’s Speech will outline the government plan to let universities in England vary undergraduate tuition fees to up to 3,000 a year. By Mike Baker BBC education correspondent, in Virginia, USA “Bang for your buck, this is one of the best around,” is the verdict of Bradley Barr, a commerce student at the University of Virginia, on his $6,150-a-year education (3,600). Higher fees give US universities something to cheer about The University of Virginia at Charlottesville, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, is an elite institution. But unlike Yale or Harvard it is a public university. So, by American standards, Virginia is relatively cheap. However, like most American universities, there are different levels of fees depending on whether students come from within the state or from elsewhere in the USA. At Virginia, out-of-state undergraduates pay much more: $22,169 a year (13,075). Rising fast Digging deep for university tuition is simply a fact of life in the USA. Bradley Ba
