Student protests against the tuition fee rise in December. The average cost is now much higher than predicted by education ministers. Photograph: Felipe Trueba/Photoshot
Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government's access watchdog revealed that all universities intend to charge at least £6,000 a year.
The Office for Fair Access (Offa) announced that every one of the 123 universities and university colleges in England intend to charge £6,000 or more to full-time undergraduates from autumn 2012. A further 17 further-education colleges – out of 124 – want to charge fees of more than £6,000. Universities had until midnight on Tuesday to submit their plans to the watchdog.
Offa would not say how many of the institutions want to charge the maximum fee of £9,000. However, research by the Guardian has revealed that almost three-quarters of English universities and university colleges intend to charge this amount for at least some of their courses.
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