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	Top-up fees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Top-up fees (not their official name) are a new way of charging tuition to undergraduate and PGCE students who study at universities in the United Kingdom from the 2006-2007 academic year onwards.
		Rather than pay the fees up front (as is the case now), they will be paid by the governement-owned Student Loans Company (SLC), the same body that currently provides student loans.
		Legislation to enable the introduction of top-up fees was proposed by the Labour Party Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke and became law in the Higher Education Act 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Top-up_fees (1019 words)

	Oxford Brookes University: Finance - Income Office - Tuition Fees - Top-up Fees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These fees are familiarly referred to as 'top-up' fees as they represent an addition to the 'standard' fee of c.
		The higher fees can be deferred, as opposed to being up-front costs as they currently are - students will not have to repay their tuition fees until they reach a certain earnings threshold after graduation, likely to be around £15,000.
		Universities may not charge more in tuition fees to these students than they do to 'home' students), the Government have said that it is not their intention to make the HE maintenance grant available to EU students from outside the UK.
	www.brookes.ac.uk /finance/2006fees/! (2751 words)

	BBC - Manchester Have Your Say - Top-up fees - crippling students with debt?
		It is expected that the fees will be covered by a loan which people will start to repay once their earnings reach a certain level, perhaps £12,000.
		Fees for poorer students are met by the government.
		That will be £2,200 a year There's something up with the system when families who lose a parent have to pay more than families with two incomes that may happen to fall on the right side of a threshold.
	www.bbc.co.uk /manchester/have_your_say/2002/12/04/student_fees.shtml (2779 words)

	BBC - Turmoil as top-up fees are considered
		The top-up fees may encourage people to only take up well-paying jobs as this will be the only way they can reduce their debts quickly.
		Top-up fees are being justified by a funding crisis in higher education.
		The only thing that top up fees will achieve will be to create a two-tier education system and this so-called UK Ivy League, based on elitist principles that favour the rich and privileged.
	www.bbc.co.uk /oxford/features/2003/01/top_up_fees.shtml (791 words)

	University Top-Up Fees
		Top-up fees are a strange thing to introduce for a government whose number one priority is, "Education, education, education", and is seeking to see 50% of school leavers enter higher education.
		Top-up fees are wrong because they place a financial burden upon the individual and that financial burden is seen as being too onerous by many, who will consequently not pursue the education they would have if top-up fees were not in place.
		Top-up fee levels can be set by individual institutions and can therefore be used as a filter to preclude those who do not feel they have, or will have, the financial resources to attend particular institutions.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /topupfee.htm (1033 words)

	Brian's Education Blog • Janet Daley on top-up fees: " education is where we make our profit "
		The trouble with top-up fees does not lie in the second part of their name — tuition fees already exist and are paid by any student (or parent) who earns more than a statutory amount — but in the first part.
		What is wrong with top-up fees is that they are just that: they will come on top of a subsidy that does not permit universities any serious freedom to rethink their economic or administrative practices.
		I think that top up fees give them slightly more control of their finances, and so I support them, but they don't solve the real problem, which is bureaucracy and social engineering (and simple stupidity and ignorance) on the part of government more than money.
	www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/000838.htm (1431 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The report, commissioned by the Russell Group of 18 elite universities, says differential fees for institutions and courses would provide the injection of money needed to solve the funding crisis in British universities, which it says the public will not allow to be paid for by tax increases.
		Universities should be able to charge higher fees for students from richer families to help pay for scholarships for those from poorer ones, the report says.
		Even modest differential fees "have the capacity to make a real difference" - up to £1.02bn for universities a year even if fees were capped at £4,000.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4037776,00.html (631 words)

	BMA - Top-up fees: Bad for Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A BMA survey revealed the unacceptable trend that nearly 80% of medical students (Medical students – top up fees, tuition fees and debt, January 2004) are from professional or managerial backgrounds.
		Top-up fees, in addition to the extra costs inherent in studying medicine, would move away from and not towards the Government's and the universities' policy of widening access to higher education.
		BMA (NI) is deeply concerned that Top-Up Fees will have a detrimental effect on the intake of undergraduates for a medical course in Queen’s University and for the health implications for students in general due to increased financial worries.
	www.bma.org.uk /ap.nsf/Content/NIMSC+Top-Up+Fees (1057 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Students march over top-up fees
		Students from across the UK gathered in Cardiff on Thursday to march against the possible introduction of top-up fees in Wales.
		They were lobbying for fees to be ruled out after the next expected assembly elections in 2007.
		A spokesperson for the assembly government said: "The Welsh Assembly Government was elected on a manifesto commitment that variable fees would not be introduced in Wales during the lifetime of the second Assembly.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4060511.stm (311 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Top-up fees explained
		If the government legislates for top-up fees - or differential fees as they are more diplomatically known - universities would, by law, be able to set their own level of tuition fees.
		The students say they won't, but if top-up fees are introduced, some form of maintenance grant would be re-introduced for those from the poorest backgrounds.
		Top-up fees could not be introduced for at least another three years, because of Labour's manifesto commitment not to introduce them in a second term of office.
	education.guardian.co.uk /specialreports/tuitionfees/story/0,5500,823549,00.html (847 words)

	ePolitix.com - Forum Brief: Top-up fees
		There have been reports that top universities have threatened to leave the state funded higher education system unless allowed to charge top-up fees.
		Universities are seeking to charge "differential fees" to reflect world elite status - the charges could be as much as £15,000 on top of existing tuition fees.
		"Differential fees may be one of the options, and universities are prepared to have that debate to ensure that all the implications of deregulation are examined in full.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/ForumBriefs/200210/1EEE1F32-E6DB-486E-A64C-8F007E568F00.htm (215 words)

	NG BBS - Top-Up Fees
		If they are currently free (and therefore supported by taxpayer money) I think the "top- up" fee is a great idea, because this makes the individual take a vested interest in his or her education.
		All education up to that point is free.
		Now what the Government wants to do is as well as tuition fees, they want to put in place a system where English Universities have he choice of having a maximum of £3000 ($4800) of top up fees.
	www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=99819 (2617 words)

	Rutnet Forum - Top Up Fees
		Getting higher paid jobs means that they will be in a higher tax bracket and therefore will pay more tax in the future (and in the long run), therefore probably paying for the costs of their education.
		One friend works Friday night in a factory and saturday at her local post office and comes back each Friday afternoon to do this and is very dedicated to her law degree.
		Top up fees may stop alot of bright but poor 18 year olds from going to uni.
	www.rutnet.co.uk /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2367 (882 words)

	Indymedia Cambridge, UK \| The impact of fees
		Proponents of fees have argued that their introduction is actually a socialist and progressive measure.
		I would argue that fees are not beneficial to the poorest in society for two reasons.
		University fees are yet another way in which the UK Government is implementing the commands coming from their masters in the IMF.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/regions/cambridge/2004/02/285958.html (1206 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Students say top-up fees cut access
		The NUS says that in Australia, where top-up fees were introduced in 1996, applications from those in poorer families and isolated rural backgrounds have slumped by between 3% and 45%.
		And in the United States, a rise in tuition fees in the past five years has been claimed as a reason for a 22% fall in the proportion of fl students applying.
		Under the report's proposals, the higher fees faced by students would be offset by scholarships and improved loans which would be intended to ensure that young people from deprived backgrounds would not be excluded.
	newsrss.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/823893.stm (501 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Students \| Top-up fees: Blair pleads with rebels
		The Prime Minister warns that the debate is 'a test of whether we have the ambition and the discipline to make and win the case for more opportunities and better services in the future', in a two-page letter sent to Labour MPs this weekend.
		Ministers are arguing that if redbrick universities charge anything up to £2,700 for a course, they will be able to keep all the revenue rather than setting anything aside for bursaries for poor students, since the Government's support package will come to at least this.
		This device is meant to sway opponents of variable fees who are worried that poor universities, likely to charge less than the maximum rate, will not make as much income as elite universities charging premium rates.
	education.guardian.co.uk /students/tuitionfees/story/0,12757,1120589,00.html (378 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Money \| Credit and debt \| Brown veto on plan for top-up fees
		As officials were told to rework key details of the proposals which would see students contribute up to £3,000 a year to the cost of their education - but pay back the money after graduation - Mr Clarke signalled his determination to publish his promised white paper on university funding next week.
		Both sides agree that access is a key issue with the Treasury determined to press the universities, which have a very mixed record on the social mix of their student population.
		It was still not certain last night whether top universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Warwick would be allowed to have differential top-up fees to reflect their elite status in return for a package of scholarships and other help to poorer candidates.
	money.guardian.co.uk /creditanddebt/studentfinance/story/0,1456,876729,00.html (831 words)

	Welsh Liberal Democrats - online petition form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Top-up fees will generate at most £1.5 billion, and now the Government is telling universities that around a third of this must be spent on bursaries for poorer students, leaving only £1 billion — and that not until 2006.
		In addition, experience of the present (£1,125) tuition fees shows that income generated through fees will be offset by a lesser contribution from the Treasury.
		Re-introduce maintenance grants of up to £2000 towards living costs for students from low-income homes and restore students’ right to housing and unemployment benefits during the summer.
	www.welshlibdems.org.uk /campaigns_e_petitiondetail.asp?campaignNo=4 (551 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Top up fees and student finance - Students from England look north to avoid top-up fees
		ENGLISH students are applying to Scottish universities in record numbers to try to avoid top-up tuition fees south of the Border.
		Experts blamed the introduction of top-up fees, which will allow English universities to charge students £3,000 a year from 2006.
		A spokesman for the umbrella body Universities Scotland said: "On the one hand it is simplistic to say it is just down to top-up fees, but there is no doubt that is the major reason.
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=734&id=451702005 (457 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Mr Blair took his stance at Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons as up to 20,000 students attended a rally in central London to protest against the Government's plans to impose top-up fees on students.
		Top-up fees are thought to be the Prime Minister's brainchild and Mr Blair's apparent change of heart will be seen as a victory for Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, who favours a "graduate tax" which would see students pay back their debt later in life.
		The top-up fees also face massive opposition from student leaders who claim that the charges will result in students running up huge debts as well as making children from low and middle income families reluctant to go to university.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/04/ufee.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/12/04/ixport.html (822 words)

	AUT - AUT attacks variable top-up fees confirmation
		Ms Hunt said the fees would dissuade those from poor-to-middle income backgrounds from entering higher education.
		'The introduction of variable top-up fees will deal a catastrophic blow to the drive to persuade poor-to-middle income students to enter higher education and be hugely damaging for many less prestigious institutions.
		'The proposal for variable top-up fees is still desperately unpopular, throughout the nation, particularly among Labour backbenchers.
	www.aut.org.uk /index.cfm?articleid=710 (285 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Top up fees and student finance - Student leaders attack fees plan
		The Scottish Executive has already announced plans to increase fees for English students at Scottish universities in a bid to prevent an influx when top-up fees come into effect south of the Border.
		And it has inserted a clause giving ministers new powers to set fees in an otherwise uncontroversial Bill about merging the two quangos in charge of funding further and higher education.
		Ms Ward said introducing higher fees for certain courses was creating a market in education where only the richest students had real choice.
	business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=734&id=1294822004 (746 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| 59% of voters oppose top-up fees
		Three-quarters of voters correctly identified them as fees that have to be paid back once a student earns more than £15,000, and they were able to tell the difference between them and upfront tuition fees and a graduate tax.
		This is underlined by the fact that of the 75% who correctly described top-up fees, 59% said they disapproved and only 30% said they approved, which is in line with the overall result for all voters.
		And 51% of voters would prefer to see the top universities offer places to children from poorer backgrounds, even if their A-level scores are not as good as other applicants.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /polls/story/0,11030,1107797,00.html (591 words)

	The Scotsman - Opinion - Confusion over top-up fees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Top-up fees would allow individual universities to charge (or not) extra fees to meet the cost of, say, expensive science courses which are not fully funded by the state.
		Mr Caldwell thinks the top-up fees debate is a diversion from the need for more state funding for universities.
		This enables top US research-based universities to use their drawing power to help fund salaries for the world’s best academic minds.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1288902002 (411 words)

	UNISON the public service union - At work: Education
		Interviews with 53 of the 89 university vice-chancellors in England showed that few universities intend to charge variable fees and the elite universities are already campaigning for the maximum charge to be raised.
		Although more than half the universities interviewed had not yet decided their policy, nearly 75% of those who had intended to charge the maximum amount for all courses.
		Other universities plan to charge the maximum fee for all courses apart from those that are harder to fill.
	www.unison.org.uk /education/higher/news_view.asp?did=1283 (276 words)

	University of Wales, Lampeter - No Top-Up Fees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Whilst students at English universities may have to pay up to £3000 per year in fees, the Welsh Assembly Government is not charging variable fees.
		Many students are exempt from the current fixed fee and, even if you do have to pay it, you will not have to pay it back until after you have left university.
		These fees will be repayable after students graduate (“deferred fees”) with the loan paid back over a period of time once a certain income level is reached.
	www.lamp.ac.uk /recruitment/top_up_fees.htm (575 words)

	Swinney warns on top-up fees - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		There are no plans for top-up fees here but some academics have predicted a decline in higher education within Scotland unless the Executive responds with more cash.
		In a speech to students at Dundee, he said when top-up fees started flowing into the coffers of English universities, Scottish institutions would suffer a huge cash disadvantage.
		He warned: "The really big long-term threat is if in time top-up fees start to replace rises in state funding of universities in England, then Scottish universities will get no extra public money at all.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/news/5020259.html (174 words)

	Liberal Democrats : Top up fees
		In 1997, the Government said that tuition fees would "put higher education on a firm footing for the next two decades." Instead, public funding per student was cut as fees income grew, leaving universities no better off.
		At the time of their lives when we want young people to be starting to build up a pension, and they want to be buying their first house, they will instead be trapped into repaying massive debts.
		The Liberal Democrats are carrying on the battle to scrap tuition and top up fees.
	www.libdems.org.uk /education/issues/topupfees.html (1056 words)

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