The Secretary of State for Education and Skills has recently announced that tuition fees for home and EU undergraduate students who started a relevant course before 1 September 2006 or who had deferred entry to the course from an earlier year will rise to £1,255 for the academical year 2008-09. For students who started a relevant course (i.e. one for which the fee category was A to C in the schedule appended to the regulations for University Composition Fees) on 1 September 2006 or later, and who had not deferred entry to the course from an earlier year, the University Composition Fee for 2008-09 will be £3,145.
The Council has agreed to propose a rate of increase of 1.85% on 2007-08 fees for home and EU postgraduate students for the academical year 2008-09; this reflects guidance offered by the Research Councils. Approval was given by Grace 3 of 14 March 2007 for fees for overseas students in 2008-09 to be increased by the expected inflation amount of 2.5%. The Council has agreed to propose that, for the year 2009-10, fees for overseas students should be increased by 4.5% which represents the increase in University costs.
The Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board have recently received a proposal for differential fees to be paid for certain postgraduate courses in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. In their Joint Report on University Composition Fee rates for the M.Phil. Degree and certain other postgraduate qualifications (Reporter, 2004-05, p. 516) the Council and the General Board set out the requirements to be met before any proposals could be submitted to the Regent House for approval (para. 9):
9. The central bodies intend, in the event that this Report is approved, that institutions seeking to charge a differential fee should be required to make a case for consideration by representatives of the Council of the relevant School, the Board of Graduate Studies (where the course requires registration as a Graduate Student), and the central bodies. The case must be made in advance of the annual admissions cycle so that applicants have clear information about course costs. The case will need to demonstrate that the proposed fee level will reflect actual course costs but will continue to allow for the admission of those most academically qualified. In instances where studentship providers (including the Research Councils, the Colleges, and the Cambridge Trusts) expect to pay the University Composition Fee at the standard rate, the institutions will need to demonstrate how the difference between the two rates will be met through scholarship or bursary schemes. The central bodies will pay particular attention, before promoting the necessary Grace, to ensuring that admissions standards will not be compromised and that the institution has in place particularly effective quality assurance procedures so that student expectations of the quality of the programme can be properly met.
The recommendations in the Joint Report were approved by the University by Grace 7 of 20 April 2005.
The Council of the School has recommended that the fees for the postgraduate courses listed below should be increased by £1,000 for both Home/EU and overseas students, with effect from 1 September 2009.
Diplomas in: Economics, International Law, Legal Studies
LL.M. Degree
M.Phil. Degree, courses leading to examinations in:
Archaeological Heritage and Museums
Archaeological Research
Criminological Research
Criminology
Development Studies
Early Modern History
Economic and Social History
Education
Environmental Policy
Historical Studies
History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International Relations
Land Economy
Land Economy Research
Latin-American Studies
Medieval History
Modern European History
Modern Society and Global Transformations
Planning, Growth, and Regeneration
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Politics
Real Estate Finance
Social and Developmental Psychology
Social Anthropological Analysis
Social Anthropological Research
World Archaeology
The Council of the School has recommended that the fees for the postgraduate courses listed below should be increased by £1,000 for Home/EU students, with effect from 1 September 2009:
Archaeological Science
Biological Anthropological Science
Biological Anthropology
These proposals have been scrutinized by the Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board who have recommended to the Council that the Council of the School has met the requirements of the Joint Report.
The Council has also agreed to propose fees for 2008-09 for the M.B.A. course and certain M.St. courses which have been recommended by the relevant bodies.
The Council is accordingly submitting a Grace to the Regent House (Grace 3, p. 585) for the approval of the changes to the Table of Fees which result from the proposals in this Notice, together with certain other necessary changes.