ANNUAL UK consumer prices index (CPI) inflation leapt from 2.2% in September to 2.7% in October as the Coalition Government's hike in maximum annual undergraduate tuition fees for new UK and European Union students in England, to £9000, sent education prices soaring.
Surging university tuition fees represented the largest contributor to the rise in annual inflation, the Office for National Statistics said.
Overall education prices surged 19.1% month-on-month in October. The ONS noted this was more than twice the next-biggest monthly rise in education prices since comparable records began in 1996.
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