If you go to Table 23 there is Consumer Price Index data from 2004 to 2017. This roughly covers the time I have been in the UK.
What I had not appreciated was the enormous inflation in education. Here is a graph.
This indicates that education costs have increase by nearly a factor of 3 over a 13 year period. This is as troubling as it is unsustainable. Nothing else comes close. Overall inflation was about 32% but for education it was about 269%.
It can be argued that some of this is due to the government moving education costs from taxes to consumers, but this is not sufficient. Everyone would have expected a step when top up fees were introduced and another when the new fee regime came into force. This is very different.
