So dd'd starting uni in 2011 , will she be paying the new higher tuition fees or not?

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Reading educational q&a column in times it appears she will be paying the old rate.
Does anyone know for sure?

Yes, you're right. New fees - if they are voted through legislation (seems likely) - would not come into force until 2012 at the earliest.

so will she have to pay the new rate in her 2nd yr?

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No, I don't think she will. If she starts at the old rate then it has to be honoured through the course. I'm not 100% sure but thats the impression I got from the news.

I think she will be in the old system and that should continue throughout the course. We are limbo as DD will apply for 2012 and defer for a year. Hope they won't get the details sorted out for then, it's wrong to rush it through.

It's anybodies guess what they will rush through. EMA is stopping next year even though they said we had it for two years.

bumping again to cheak if anyone has confirmation of this

No she wouldn't have to pay the new rate in the 2nd year. Those who start before the new rate comes in will continue to pay the old rate. That is what happened when DD1 was at uni she started a year before the tution fees wnt up to £3000 and she sayed on the £1.500 rate

Hopefully it will be as mumeeee describes .
But the finance talk I attended at a Uni open day made the point that while they assumed any changes would be implemented in same way as last increase in tution fees ( if you start on lower rate ,you stay on it until end of course ) there has been no confirmation from govt. that this will be case .