University tuition fees paid by students need to rise with inflation, the head of a Welsh university has told a Commons committee. The current £9,000 a year to study for a degree in Wales - and £9,250 in England - is not sustainable at a time when inflation is running at 10% Professor Edmund Burke, Vice Chancellor of Bangor University told the Welsh Affairs Committee.
Professor Burke said higher fees from international students are vital to subsidise inadequate domestic tuition fee prices as well as research. The Commons committee evidence session comes amid warnings from universities in Wales about a lack of funding since Brexit leading to job losses and fees remaining static for nearly a decade
Welsh universities appear to have been more heavily dependent on EU structural funds than other universities elsewhere in the UK and as many as 1,000 higher education jobs could be lost with EU structural funds coming to an end, the committee was also told.
