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Undergraduate tuition fees are over £9k a year (it was zero when I went to university 20 years ago).

That's wrong.

In 2000 the fees that the UK student had to pay was £1000 a year (£1700 in today's currency), and the government paid about £3000 - a total of £4000, or £6800 in today's money.

Students had to pay this upfront to study. In 2006 these upfront fees were dropped.

Student fees were introduced september 1998, or just over 21 years ago

Technically they're wrong but it's a very minor change to their point

Not really, they were still £4000, its just that the government paid the full amount rather than 75% (20 years ago)

OK, I was rounding. It was closer to 25 years ago but I try not to think about how old I am.

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