<p><p>The system of higher education finance in England is currently under formal independent review. The review, chaired by Lord Browne, will be taking evidence up to May 2010.</p><p>In "Future arrangements for funding higher education", IFS researchers, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, highlight some of the trade-offs that would be involved in reforming the current system of fees and loans applying to full-time undergraduate study. </p><p></p>
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Lorraine Dearden

Research Fellow University College London
Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.

Research Fellow University of Chicago
Greg is a Professor at the University of Chicago in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and a Research Fellow at the IFS.

Gill Wyness
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