Andy Burnham accused of 'staggering' hike in university tuition fees

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Andy Burnham has been accused of "hiking tuition fees to record levels" by the Scottish National Party (SNP) as analysis reveals today's English undergraduates have over £50,000 of debt on average. When university tuition fees were introduced by new Labour under Tony Blair, they were set at £1,000. But fees at English universities are now set at £9,790 a year, a "staggering" rise of 879 per cent.

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