Only 7 responses you need to Theresa May’s university tuition fees review

Theresa May will today call for ‘better value’ for students after admitting they face ‘one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world’.

The so-called prime minister will also announce and independent review of fees and student finance with almost all university courses currently charging the maximum £9,250 a year.

Here are the only 5 responses you need right now (and more reaction as we get it).

1.

Theresa May today launches a year long review into the excessive cost of a British university education.
She was in all of the Cabinets that coined the tuition fee policies.
What on earth is she expecting to discover?

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) February 19, 2018

2.

“If only there were some way to encourage more students from poorer backgrounds” says government that scrapped bursaries for nurses and midwives.

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) February 19, 2018

3.

https://twitter.com/paulhodgkins3/status/965471709032800261

4.

When someone who went to university for free goes on the radio defending #TuitionFees because it's fair that those who benefit from a university education should pay for it, the interviewer should immediately hand them an invoice for £27,000.

— Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) (@elocemearg) February 19, 2018

5.

I'll save the tax payers a bunch of money and do this review in less than 10 seconds:

Tuition fees are too high.

You're welcome. https://t.co/KCXE4cotKM

— Shehab Khan ITV (@ShehabKhan) February 19, 2018

6.

Let me get this straight, you shaft students for yrs by tripling tuition fees to £9250 a yr, Saddle them with crippling debts of £50,000 & extortionate interest of 6% when rates are only 0.5% & then you conduct a review into how much you’ve shafted them? https://t.co/r9vCBYENAN

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) February 19, 2018

7.

Theresa May reveals that the Conservative party decision to increase UK university fees has resulted in fees being very expensive.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) February 19, 2018

Except Martin Lewis, who appears to know a thing or two about money saving, had this to say.

Why, bizarrely, cutting tuition fees under the current system would HURT not help most students. A two minute briefing.

Ps RT. pic.twitter.com/S8beUfSO8z

— Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) February 18, 2018