International Student Movement

The following mail was sent in:

Dear representatives of the International Student Movement,
 
My name is Sara Gonzalez and I am a part-time continuing education lecturer at Birkbeck and Oxford University. I wish to share with you some interesting data regarding cuts in education:
 
The Institute for Fiscal studies has calculated that raising tuition fees to 9K will mean that the savings to the taxpayer will be insignificant, about £700 per student. Please see:
http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5354

'The main loser of the Government's proposed system is the taxpayer: the reduction in maintenance grants is more than outweighed by the cost of not imposing a levy. At higher fee levels, this becomes an increasingly important factor: if all universities charged £9,000 a year, we calculate that total the taxpayer burden of higher education would only be slightly lower than it is at the moment (by around £770 per graduate) costing the government potentially billions of pounds of savings compared to Lord Browne's proposals.'

This undermines the whole basis of the government's policy.

I hope you can use this, I am sending it round to every relevant organisation I can think of.
 
Sincerely,
 
Sara