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The UK’s young people are losing out to baby boomers – but tuition fees are not the problem

£9,000 fees permitted per-student funding to rise even at the height of austerity, argues former minister David Willetts

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The UK’s young people are losing out to baby boomers – but tuition fees are not the problem

£9,000 fees permitted per-student funding to rise even at the height of austerity, argues former minister David Willetts

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