University fees have recently trebled in England and there are fears that many young people may be put off from participating in further and higher education – especially those from low income backgrounds. This could exacerbate inequalities that are already very stark in the UK. In this paper, we investigate students’ knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs and benefits of staying on in education. We design an ‘information campaign’ that gives some simple facts about economic and financial aspects of educational decisions and test students’ response to this campaign. The fieldwork for our information campaign took place over the period in which the trebling of university fees was announced. This was widely reported in the media. We compare the effects of our experiment to the effects of media reporting about tuition fees that happened over the same period.
Presented by:
Sandra McNally (University of Surrey and CEP)
Date & time:
November 11, 2013 4:00 pm - November 11, 2013 5:30 pm
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