Uni Fees

I have been looking through articles that were printed before the rise in uni fees, here is one that I found, this was on the BBC website in 2009: 'In England and Northern Ireland, and for non-Welsh students in Wales, full-time undergraduates are liable to pay tuition fees of up to £3,225 a year (2009-10 rates). The poorest students are eligible for non-repayable support at up to the same amount. It works like this: Annual tuition fees - which were a flat rate of £1,175 - have, since September 2006, been varied from nothing up to a maximum of £3,000 (index linked) Families earning less than £25,000 are eligible for a grant of £2,906 a year, which tapers away to nought on family incomes of £50,020 Universities charging maximum fees have to fund bursaries of at least £310 for the poorest students Unlike previous tuition fees, students no longer have to pay "up front" - while at university - unless they want to Instead fees are covered by a loan, repayable by graduates once their annual income passes £15,000 Repayments are a minimum of 9% of all earnings over that figure per year. In getting the tuition fees legislation through Parliament in 2004 ministers accepted two amendments.