00:00Do you believe that's fair?
00:02So I do think it is right that students make a contribution to their education.
00:06My question was why 9%?
00:07So that was a figure chosen by a previous government.
00:10Are you seeking to change that?
00:11We are looking at the student finance system. It is complicated.
00:15We are looking at it.
00:16However, I do think it is right that students, through that system,
00:20make a contribution to their education.
00:21Obviously that's what you pay when you've graduated.
00:24I understand the point you've made, Bridget Phillips,
00:25and I'm just curious on that 9% figure,
00:27which you will very well know a lot of students say is unfair.
00:32Would it be right to say from what you've just told me
00:34that you are now looking at bringing that figure down, amongst other things?
00:39We don't have any immediate plans to change that figure, no.
00:42It is a figure, the kind of which we've seen over a very long period of time
00:46in the English education system.
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