Degrees of Debt

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Degrees of Debt

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Dec 10, 2010

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We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in England. Are the changes fair and progressive? Are they dropping future students into a deep hole of debt? Or are they both?

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Dec 10, 2010

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

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