Here's a figure that will chill the blood of any parent thinking about sending their child to university.It's a price tag of more than $200,000 - about £132,000 - for a four-year undergraduate course at one of the leading universities in the United States. It means that as well as student loans there are also parent loans - with huge sums of money borrowed by people who might have been planning for their retirement. And it's the middle-income families who are facing the toughest squeeze. In England a major review of university funding and students' fees is under way. What would happen to the cost of going to university if there were no fixed limits?
Here's a figure that will chill the blood of any parent thinking about sending their child to university.
It's a price tag of more than $200,000 - about £132,000 - for a four-year undergraduate course at one of the leading universities in the United States.
It means that as well as student loans there are also parent loans - with huge sums of money borrowed by people who might have been planning for their retirement.
And it's the middle-income families who are facing the toughest squeeze.
In England a major review of university funding and students' fees is under way. What would happen to the cost of going to university if there were no fixed limits?
