Treat all students equally, Master tells BBC News

Today saw the launch of the Higher Education Funding Review. The review is tasked with making recommendations to Government on the future of fees policy and financial support for full and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Writing on the BBC News website, Professor David Latchman called for equality in how part-time students are treated:

"It's time for a fair deal for part-time students. The ongoing fees debate has so far ignored more than a third of the UK's university student population: the 700,000 people who study part-time. If this figure comes as a surprise then you are probably not alone. For too long part-time higher education has been the Cinderella of the sector, impoverished by serious financial inequities that exist between part-time and full-time students and the institutions which educate them."

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