Anyone advocating for the abolition of tuition fees must address the issue of outstanding student debt, for both practical and ethical reasons. This is the rationale behind Jubilee 2022: a proposed cap on maximum tuition fee loan repayments for first-time, undergraduate degrees, explained in our paper Jubilee 2022: Writing off the student debt.
The initial Jubilee 2022 proposal received a lot of feedback, some of which will be helpful in informing future work in this area. Much of the feedback, however, focussed not on debt cancellation per se, but on the worthiness of abolishing tuition fees in the first place. In this paper, Danny Dorling and Michael Davies set out the case for funding higher education not from tuition fees or ‘graduate contribution systems’, but through progressive, general taxation.
