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RPC opinion: The Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 impact assessment

The RPC's opinion of the Department for Education's impact assessment.

• From: Regulatory Policy Committee
• Published: 25 February 2025

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RPC opinion: The Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 impact assessment

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The Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 increase the limits on tuition fees that higher education providers can charge students studying undergraduate courses in the 2025 to 26 academic year. It also introduces new lower tuition fee limits for foundation years in classroom based subjects, such as business, social science and humanities, in the 2025 to 26 academic year.

The Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) gave a ‘green’ rating to the impact assessment for the regulations on 9 December 2024. This means that we considered the impact assessment to be fit for purpose based on our scrutiny of the evidence and analysis supporting the case for why regulation is necessary. 

The RPC’s opinion refers to the evidence and analysis presented in the impact assessment, not the policy itself.

Published 25 February 2025