ABSTRACT
We now turn to the analysis of responses to selected BSA questions over time and to associations between attitudes towards higher education and the social position of respondents to the 2010 BSA survey (National Centre for Social Research 2010). We chose the 2010 survey because it is relatively current but also because it included a specific battery of questions on higher education. These questions concerned university funding, including issues such as tuition fees, maintenance grants and loans, as well as probing attitudes towards participation and the value of university education. The greater number of questions about higher education in recent BSA surveys itself indicates the public salience of these issues in the context of the introduction of tuition fees. The 2010 survey was carried out just before the government confirmed the raise in tuition fees to up to £9000.
