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Shadow minister backs call to scrap graduate application fees

Image: Richard Townshend, [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Labour’s Emma Hardy urges universities to make themselves ‘open and accessible’

Labour’s shadow education minister has backed a campaign to scrap application fees for postgraduate universities.

In an exclusive interview with Research Professional News, Emma Hardy, who replaced Gordon Marsden in the role in January, said: “By charging students just to apply, universities are making it so easy for this populist government to attack them.

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