Students: Fees and Charges

(asked on 19th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the extent to which tuition fees for home students cover the actual costs of degree delivery across various subjects for UK universities.


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Robert Halfon
This question was answered on 24th April 2023

The Office for Students collect and publish sector-level data on income and full economic cost by type of activity including publicly funded teaching (which relates to domestic and EU domiciled students, but not international students). The latest published data can be found here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/annual-trac-2020-21/.

As part of the 2019 Augur Review on Post-18 Education and Funding, the department commissioned and published a report by KPMG on the cost of undergraduate provision which looked at the variation in costs of teaching per student across subjects and providers. The report can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-undergraduate-higher-education-provision.

The department also published a related analytical note on subject variations in the cost of teaching an undergraduate, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/post-18-review-of-education-and-funding-supporting-statistics.

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