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January 2010
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Reforms to tuition fees and student support had no overall impact on the number of 18 or 19 year olds attending university in England

IFS research, due to be presented today at the first public hearing of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, shows that reforms reduced the total costs over a lifetime of attending university for young people from low and middle income backgrounds, and increased them for young people from higher income backgrounds.

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