Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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Well, if universities charge the minimum, which would be £6,000, then the Institute for Fiscal Studies have calculated that these institutions would actually be £1,500 per student worse off relative to the current system.
That's across the whole of a three-year degree course.
And universities charging £9,000 will be almost £7,000 per student better off over three years.
So some of this will go to helping poorer students with the fee waivers and the bursaries.
And universities also argue it will help replace some of the money they lose through research grants and things like that.
But overall, it does seem that the universities are the winners, not the losers in this scheme.
But it does seem very likely the whole system will be cheaper for the taxpayer than what we've currently got.
Thanks, Wes.
You know, that was really interesting.
Yes, it's too big.
Yes, it is.
What a pity.
Yes, he's in a slightly tricky position at the moment because he's currently doing some work at the Treasury and he couldn't just drop everything to come on the programme.
But he did tell us that the measurement error could explain a small part of the pattern.
But he's very sceptical that regression to the mean is the main influence on the results.
He thinks it doesn't explain why poor kids with high test scores are more likely to be having a good day than their rich counterparts.
So presumably you put that to Daniel Reid.
What was his response?
Well, yes, I mean, he stands by his critique.
He thinks Feinstein's research shows clearly that rich kids do better on average than poor kids in these tests.
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