More women than men are attending university – despite rising costs. But the way to an egalitarian system would be to bring back grants and scrap tuition fees

As any university lecturer can attest, the £9,000 fee regime has had a series of negative impacts on student, institution and teacher alike. Students, particularly outside the Russell Group universities, are often exhausted or absent from class owing to the multiple jobs they have to take on in order to pay rent and buy food.

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