The coalition government's generational failure

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The coalition government's generational failure

At the risk of this reading like a GCSE maths paper, imagine two students: James and Juliet. James started university in 2011, the last year of the old tuition-fee regime. He paid tuition fees of £3,375 per year, or just over £10,000 in total. Juliet started her degree at the same university a year later, and paid £9,000 a year, or £27,000 in all. This much is familiar to everyone: fees almost tripled from one year to the next. But in reality th…