Huddersfield University chief Prof Bob Cryan: We won't charge £9,000 a year fees - plus have your say in our survey

Nov 5 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

STUDENTS coming to the University of Huddersfield will not pay £9,000 a year in tuition fees.

That was the pledge made today by the University’s Vice Chancellor Prof Bob Cryan, who has voted “No” in the Huddersfield Examiner poll to universities being allowed to charge £9,000 per year from 2012.

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And he said the high fees would mean universities profiteering from students, which was wrong.

The Vice Chancellor has conceded that fees will have to rise to meet Government cuts in funding but insisted they will not be on the scale that has been forecast.

And he has launched a hard-hitting attack on the new fees system, confirmed by the Government this week.

The university expects to see 5,500 new students in 2012 with 4,644 of those liable for the new fees.

The university faces a cut of £46m in its Government allocation of £140m over three years.

Prof Cryan said: “The University of Huddersfield will certainly not be charging £9,000. Why? Because we don’t need to.

“A fee of £9,000 is unnecessary and would mean that we would receive more money than we are now and so, in effect, we would be profiteering from the students and forcing them to incur unnecessary debt. For any University to do this would be wrong.

“Do I want to charge extra fees? Absolutely not.

“Do I have to charge extra fees? Absolutely yes. Because the Government is removing nearly 90% of its funding to the University and so we have no choice in the matter.