Emma Glanfield quoted Sir Peter Lampl in her Higher Education White Paper coverage for Mail Online

Universities across England could be forced to cut their tuition fee rates to students suffering poor teaching in a bid to improve standards across the country, according to new Government proposals.

Institutions will be forced to publish information about the amount of time students spend in lectures, the jobs they get as graduates and their average earnings before being ranked for their teaching ability.

Universities that score highly in teaching will be able to raise the £9,000 annual tuition fees in line with inflation from autumn 2017 – sparking warnings that students face the prospect of being saddled with more debt.

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Sir Peter Lampl, Chairman of the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation, greeted the focus on access in the White Paper.

But he said: ‘We are disappointed that the Government has apparently dropped encouraging proposals to give the director (of fair access to education) more powers to set targets where universities are not making progress.

‘This softening of the original proposals is likely to make it much harder to increase the participation of disadvantaged students.’

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