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CEE DP 126 The Impact of Tuition Fees and Support on University Participation in the UK Lorraine Dearden Emla Fitzsimons Gill Wyness July 2011 Published by Centre for the Economics of Education London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE © L. Dearden, E. Fitzsimons and G. Wyness, submitted July 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form other than that in which it is published. Requests for permission to reproduce any article or part of the Working Paper should be sent to the editor at the above address. The Centre for the Economics of Education is an independent multidisciplinary research centre. All errors and omissions remain the authors. The Impact of Tuition Fees and Support on University Participation in the UK Lorraine Dearden Emla Fitzsimons Gill Wyness 1. Introduction 1 2. HE Finance in the UK, 1960–2007 5 The 1998 Reforms 6 The 2006 Reforms 7 3. Data 12 4. Estimation 16 5. Findings 20 Main Specif