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Head to octopusevo Financial Times podcast on British Politics.

I'm Miranda Green and in the fourth of our summer specials

we're breaking out of the news cycle to take a look at some of the big policy questions

facing the UK. This week we'll be looking at education.

The country is locked in an argument about who should pay for expanding undergraduate degrees.

State schools are facing a funding shakeup that will see many have to tighten their belts considerably, and we may or may not be paying

attention to an ambitious government skills plan that may or may not ever happen.

I am delighted to dive into all this with Claire Barrett, editor of

F.T. Money, our employment correspondent Sarah O'Connor, and Nigel Cahane,

research director of the Social Market Foundation. Thank you all for joining us.

First of all, we'll turn to the Higher Education Rumpus, which has been building for some time,

but came to the fore in the recent general election campaign when Jeremy Corbyn promised to

scrap tuition fees. Claire, tuition fees in England, Scotland and Wales are now all diverging,

but there does seem to be this wellspring of anger. How worried are families

and young people about the spectra of all this debt. And why are they so angry now?

What has changed?

Well, there was a big change to both the student loan system and tuition fees in 2012

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