Higher Education Bill — Second Reading — Increase in University Tuition Fees — 27 Jan 2004 at 18:38

The majority of MPs voted in favour of university tuition fees increasing from £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year, and to make other changes to higher education funding and regulation arrangements.

The majority of MPs voted to allow the Higher Education Bill 2004 to move to its Second reading, and continue its path to becoming law.

The main provisions of the bill were:

• To allow University tuition fees to increase from the fixed £1125 per year to up to £3000 per year.
• To create the Office for Fair Access to regulation higher education institution's charging of fees.
• To create the Office of the Adjudicator in Higher Education - a complaints body - higher education institutions became legally bound to deal with.
• To create the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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• [1] Wikipedia article on the Higher Education Act 2004

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