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This report estimates the cost to government of providing undergraduate higher education. It illustrates the sensitivity of our estimates to changes in the underlying assumptions, and examines the financial and distributional implications of various changes that have been proposed to the system. It also provides new estimates of the likely cost to government of offering a £10,000 loan to postgraduate students, as proposed in Autumn Statement 2014.
Authors
Research Fellow University College London
Claire is a Research Fellow at IFS, working on the determinants and consequences of participation in childcare and education for parents and children.
Associate Director
Jack's main interests lie in human capital accumulation and discrete choice dynamic modelling.
Report details
- DOI
- 10.1920/re.ifs.2015.0105
- ISBN
- 978-1-909463-87-5
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Britton, J and Crawford, C. (2015). Estimating the Cost to Government of Providing Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/estimating-cost-government-providing-undergraduate-and-postgraduate-education (accessed: 19 May 2024).
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