TORY proposals to base university tuition fees on future career prospects will penalise working-class students and deprive courses of much-needed funding, campaigners said today.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds suggested that tuition fees should partly be based on how a degree would benefit a student’s future career.

But National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts activist Ana Oppenheim said the proposal was a “terrible idea that will both deprive courses of the funds they need and push working-class students to settle for less.”