UCL Provost discusses universities' funding on BBC News

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bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7947758.stm" target="_self">BBC Breakfast News interview

Universities UK report

UCL President and Provost Professor Malcolm Grant has been making the case for adequate funding for the UK's leading research intensive universities today in the wake of publication of the Universities UK report Changing landscapes: future scenarios for variable tuition fees.

On BBC Breakfast News this morning, Professor Grant pointed out that variable fees, introduced in 2006, are not payable upfront , but only become due once a student has graduated and is in employment.

Professor Grant argued that variable fees were not a disincentive to students to apply to university. He said: "The critical thing is how we can provide our students the world class education they deserve. It is appropriate, I think, that those who benefit from a world-class quality education should make some provision for its cost. We need to ensure that as a society we grapple with the question of how we maintain world-class universities in this country."

To watch the interview and to read the Universities UK report, follow the links at the top of this article.