u/Drazil_Citordi

Thanks guys

So assuming everyone saw that Fees Free is being changed towards being forever forgotten. Theres just a small problem that I've been thinking about.

"this is the last year in which students completing their studies will be eligible for fees free”.

- Nicola Willis

So, from what she said, students finishing their studies this year in 2026 will be the last students to get fees free. But all students doing conventional three-year undergraduate degrees who will finish this year got their first year free. Which automatically makes them ineligible for third-year free.

Third year free became a policy in January 2025, which means new university entrants of that year would be ineligible for their first year free. So does this mean that the first generation of students undertaking a three-year degree (who would have been 2025 entrants) who should be receiving last year free, won't even get it?