Parents put on notice that uni will cost them more

PARENTS will have to help meet the burden of increased university tuition fees, Treasury and Resources has said.

The department has suggested scrapping the maximum parental contribution or increasing it.

Treasury was responding to a report in the March Billet d'Etat, in which the Education Department said it had enough money to meet the costs of Guernsey students undertaking higher education this year.

However, it will return to the States in 2013 with proposals on higher education funding from 2014.

The maximum parental contribution for tuition fees for 2011 and 2012 is £6,094, according to Education's schedule of fees and allowances for the year, published on its website.