Dans un tiers des universités anglaises, les étudiants devront payer 9000 livres par an.

To the list of history’s spectacularly inaccurate predictions, one more can now be added.

Just under four years after former universities and science minister David Willetts insisted that higher education institutions would charge £9,000 tuition fees only in “exceptional circumstances”, all but two English universities charging undergraduates more than £6,000 have said they will charge the maximum for at least some of their courses.

Among the 123 universities assessed by the Office for Fair Access, only University College Birmingham and the University of Sunderland will not levy £9,000 fees in 2015-16.

About a third of universities – 44 in total – will charge £9,000 for all their courses, and a further 43 will charge between £8,800 and £9,000, according to data due to be published by Offa on 24 July. Overall, average tuition fees will rise from £8,735 in 2014-15 to £8,830 in 2015-16, Offa states.

Released in the week after Mr Willetts’ departure from office, the Offa statistics might be seen as confirmation of the failure of policies to curb tuition fees through the “competitive pressure” of the market. Instead, many universities have charged £9,000 or close to it, fearing that they might otherwise be viewed as second rate.

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