article_snippet: Joseph Rowntree Foundation also pointed out that because low-paid graduates eventually have low-paid graduates fees written off, the policy would ‘mainly benefit mid to high-earning graduates who’d otherwise have been repaying all or most of low-paid graduates loans’.
article_snippet: the rise in fees under the Coalition had hit the level of applications from poorer students, said the foundation, which added:
article_snippet: Even if poorer students are put off, there is no evidence that poorer students would be much less deterred by fees of £6,000 than £9,000.
article_snippet: The biggest factor preventing young people from poorer backgrounds from going to university is that the majority do not get good enough results at school to even attempt it.
article_snippet: Labour insisted poorer students would benefit, adding: ‘The scourge of debt from tuition fees is not only holding back our young people, it is a burden on our country.
article_snippet: ‘I would like to know why you are cutting the tuition fees in the light that a record number of students from poorer backgrounds are applying to university. '
article_snippet: And also the fact that it’s middle-class, better-off students who are going to be paying less.
highlights_snippet: Pointed out change would mainly benefit mid to high-earning graduates .