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Go-ahead for students’ tuition fees challenge
Two sixth-formers were granted permission yesterday to challenge the Government’s plans to triple tuition fees in the High Court.
A judge has ruled that the two students have a case against the hike, which will see fees rise to £9,000 from 2012, and should be given a full hearing.
At the hearing, a judge will consider whether to quash the regulations which treble the fees.
The challenge is being brought on the grounds that the rise – agreed by MPs in the Commons in December – contravenes human rights law because it could discriminate against poorer students, and that the Government has failed to give due regard to promoting equality of opportunity, required under discrimination law.
Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers, which has been instructed by Callum Hurley, 16 and Katy Moore, 17, said: “This is a major breakthrough and my clients now get a full hearing of their case which affects the next generations of students from less well-off backgrounds.”
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