University tuition fees released for 2012

If you are a student planning on attending University in 2012, you'll be interested in the tuition fees table that The Guardian published this week. The fees table demonstrates that there is a growing number of Universities planning to charge £9,000 per year – this is the maximum possible tuition fee figure. This increase has raised fears that the government will have to claw back funds from universities – possibly by reducing the number of places on degree courses – if the majority of institutions charge the maximum. It was also revealed last month that all universities plan to charge at least £6,000.

The latest universities to announce their 2012 tuition fee plans are:

• Bangor, Glamorgan and University of Wales, Newport have said that they plan to charge £9,000 fees for students if they are from England, Scotland and N.Ireland. Students from Wales will continue to pay £3,375 a year

• Liverpool Hope University may not be charging the full £9,000... but they are charging students £8,250 instead

• Nottingham Trent have chosen to charge £8,500

• LSE became the first Russell Group university to not plan the maximum £9,000 fee for students in 2012 last week. Instead the university has chosen to charge fees of £8,50o

So far only a handful of institutions (announced so far) have published plans to charge less than the maximum. Universities and colleges had until Tuesday 19 April 2011 to submit their access agreements to Offa. They will then assess their agreements and announce all that have been approved by 11 July 2011.