University tuition fee rise branded 'morally wrong' - as Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson defends increase

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43% : She said: "Taking more money from debt-ridden students and handing it to overpaid underperforming vice-chancellors is ill conceived and won't come close to addressing the sector's core issues."Read more:Who's who in Badenoch's new shadow cabinet?Migrants stuck on Chagos Islands may have chance to be moved to UKMore funding to tackle 'national security threat' of people smugglersThe National Union of Students (NUS) said students were being asked to "foot the bill" to keep the lights and heating on in their universities and to prevent their courses from closing down amid the "crisis".Alex Stanley, vice president for higher education of the NUS, said: "This is, and can only ever be, a sticking plaster.

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