Justify charging £9K fees or lose research cash or places, v-cs warned
Vice-chancellors have been warned that either their research funding or student places could be cut if they charge tuition fees close to £9,000 without justification.
Times Higher Education understands that, in a number of high-level conversations, institution heads have been told that the Treasury will have no choice but to find a way of clawing back money if too many universities set fees close to the cap.
It follows last week’s letter to the Office for Fair Access, in which the government threatens to legislate to allow it to intervene if there is too much “clustering” near £9,000 …