Tuition fees could be linked to teaching quality

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September 8, 2025
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Tuition fees could be linked to teaching quality

The higher education regulator has suggested that university tuition fees in England could be based on the quality of their teaching. The Office for Students (OfS) has hinted that “differential fee levels” could mean an incentive for higher quality teaching.

At the moment, all England and Wales universities charge £9,535 as the annual tuition fees for an undergraduate degree. The regulator said that any changes would be for the government to decide. Jacqui Smith, the skills minister, said that funding plans would be laid out in the autumn.

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The OfS ranks universities into four categories, gold, silver, bronze, or requires improvement.

The annual cost for an undergraduate degree rose this year and vice chancellors at the Universities UK conference in Exeter hoped to find out if further increases are coming.

Increase in tuition fees would be announced by the Department for Education, due to publish its higher education white paper in the autumn. But a suggestion that fees be linked to teaching quality would mean that there will likely be a focus on the OfS and its Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). A spokesman for the OfS said that it would be consulting over proposed changes to the TEF.

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