Petition Raise university tuition fees using current CPI, not forecasted RPIX

This petition urges the government to use CPI (currently at 0.5%) to increase tuition fees instead of the 2.8% forecasted rate from the Office of Budget Responsibility. This rate will benefit students more, whilst also covering the cost of inflation for universities.

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Due to the HE Bill universities are already publishing new tuition fees of £9250 per year, an increase of just under 2.8%. Currently, no rate of inflation published by ONS is close to 2.8% and RPIX, the rate the government is making calculations on, is only 1.5%. 2.8% is a 10 year forecast for RPIX. To put tutition fees in line with inflation a new tuition fee should be calculated each year using CPI figures at the time.

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42 signatures

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Date closed 1 February 2017
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