Tuition fees increase every year, a recent report detailed that full-time undergraduates are liable to pay tuition fees of up to £3,225 a year from 2009-2010.
The report study draws a conclusion that undergraduates would not react if fees were raised to £5,000, but students would begin to turn their backs on higher education if tuition fees were raised to £7,000.
In response to this over 770 active students in the UK have set up a campaign group on Facebook called, 'Campaign against UK tuition fees'.
Angie Schembrie, administrator of the group comments, "These fees were introduced by people who got their University education for free, paid for by the governments of the past, and now they have burned the ladders that they climbed up to prevent us from being able to benefit from the same.
Most of us now will be graduating with debts in excess of £15-20 thousand pounds, before we even start to think about getting on the property ladder.
This group is for those who want to show the government that the tradition of student protest isn't dead, and that we are prepared to show that we are not happy with being dragged into even deeper debt by those who just don't care."
However the majority of UK students are price-insensitive with strong belief that it is affordable with support from Student Finance England, formerly known as Student Finance Direct. Canterbury Christ Church Univeristy student, Laura Russell said, "I'm not bothered by the rise of costs, at the end of the day we won't be paying back a penny until we are in jobs earning over £15,000."
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