Claim: Higher tuition fees haven't put students from disadvantaged backgrounds off going to university.
Fact-check: What's been the impact of higher tuition fees on disadvantaged students going to university? - Full Fact
Verdict: higher tuition fees do not seem to have affected the longer term trend of increasing proportions of young disadvantaged students  going to university. mature student numbers have fluctuated. we don't know if the numbers going to university would be higher if tuition fees hadn't been increased.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-09-22T00:00:00