[holding answer 4 July 2006]: In 2006/07, institutions with an access agreement with OFFA can charge variable tuition fees of up to £3,000. Those without an access agreement can only charge the standard fee rate which will be £1,200. The following institutions are those that have an access agreement to charge variable fees and who will be charging less than £3,000:
Askham Bryan college
Barking college
Bishop Burton college
College of St. Mark and St. John
Hull college
Leeds Metropolitan university
Loughborough college
New College, Durham
New College, Nottingham
Newcastle college
Northbrook college, Sussex
Sparsholt college, Hampshire
Thames Valley university
The Grimsby Institute of further and higher education
Trinity and All Saints
University college Northampton
University of Greenwich
West Thames college
Wigan and Leigh college
Worcester college of technology
Writtle college
York St. John college
Details of access agreements are only available at an institutional level. Data are not available at an individual course level. It is therefore not possible to provide details of specific courses which will charge a tuition fee of less than £3,000 or the associated student numbers on these courses in academic year 2005/06.
Information on the amount of fees charged per student and course will be available from the Student Loans Company after the start of the 2006/07 academic year.
The percentage of students from each London borough making no contribution to their tuition fees in 2004/05 is given in the table.
London borough Percentage of students making no contribution to fees Barking and Dagenham 64 Barnet 40 Bexley 39 Brent 52 Bromley 30 Camden 61 Corporation of London 50 Croydon 43 Ealing 49 Enfield 45 Greenwich 57 Hackney 76 Hammersmith and Fulham 63 Haringey 59 Harrow 38 Havering 35 Hillingdon 39 Hounslow 41 Islington 63 Kensington and Chelsea 52 Kingston upon Thames 33 Lambeth 67 Lewisham 61 Merton 41 Newham 76 Redbridge 44 Richmond upon Thames 31 Southwark 67 Sutton 30 Tower Hamlets 82 Waltham Forest 62 Wandsworth 54 Westminster 60 Total England1 43 1 A figure for all English local authorities has been included in the table for comparison purposes. Source: Student Loans Company (SLC)
Data are not available at the constituency level.
Students on full-time undergraduate courses and their families are expected to make a contribution towards the cost of their tuition based on household income. Students from lower income backgrounds are wholly or partially exempt from paying tuition fees.
From 2006/07 upfront fees are abolished and full-time students will be eligible for tuition fee loans of up to £3,000. In addition, we expect around 30 per cent. of students to receive a maximum maintenance grant of £2,700 and an HE institution bursary of at least £300.
Overall, we expect around half of all eligible students to receive at least some maintenance grant.