High tuition fee deductions by lead providers impact student spending, quality, and support access.
We challenged DfE whether this level of deduction from tuition fees was acceptable. DfE emphasised that the fee taken by the lead provider should represent the value added by that lead provider.27 While noting that there is a range, OfS described some of the tuition fee amounts retained by lead …
Government response. The government will ask the OfS to consider requiring providers to publish details on the proportion of tuition fees they retain and for what purposes when the OfS next makes changes to ongoing conditions of registration.
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