In the last year, student news has been dominated with headlines about increasing tuition fees. While £9000 a year has a ring to it that's not hard to forget, many students are also being hit by hidden costs that universities expect people to pay without subsidisation or previous warning.

I am ecstatic that Britain is finally seeing the Tory party for who they are really: out of touch politicians who have no idea of the struggle of the working man.

UCAS have argued however that the drop in numbers may be down to a higher proportion of people accepting places in the previous year. But they do admit that their report reveals that young people from more disadvantaged areas and backgrounds will be almost three times less likely to apply to university compared to richer peers.

I have to admit ambivalence about yesterday's NUT strike in London. I went to work, not because I disagree with the concept of fighting for my pension, but for the rather more prosaic reason that I belong to another union, who did not choose to strike this time.

Universities will see a drop in entrance rates when higher tuition fees are imposed in 2012, potentially threatening less well-established institution...

As the battle for university places continues, the debate on financial reprieve and assistance needs to move past the issues of class and wealth and instead adopt a new mantra, one that is wholly insulated and non-derivative: ability.

THE spiralling cost of higher education grew to new heights yesterday, with news students in Wales will pay up to 11% more for their university accomm...