There is an opinion that all prices/fees should fall in a recession, and purveyors of professional services and education are easy targets.
Or course there is the contrary reply - that when things are going well you can get great discounts and people are less inclined to deal when every sale counts.
People seem to forget the time and money already put into education by the people giving the courses and the fact that they are intellectually mobile.
They can decide not to give courses, as well as 3rd level institutions can decide not to hold courses.
Unless the course offers good interaction with people on the cutting edge of the profession, and unless you need to see people in front of you to learn, correspondence courses giving the same level fo advice will prepare you just as well.
Why don't you try another university - perhaps something like the Open University.
The real issue, as was noted in a recent contribution to a thread dealing with a psychology course, seems to be whether the course qualification is well thought of and recognised by other institutions, persons who and places where you might gainfully be employed.
But to come back to Brendan's point, there is another side to the cost of post-graduate courses, which I agree seem very high, particularly so in the case of Project Management for some reason.
It is assumed that people who already are qualified and have been earning for a few years can afford to pay more of the cost of the course.
(OT) Lumping course fees on students at a time when we should be investing in intellectual capital - for the sake of short term book balancing - will be one of the signs that this government is unfit to govern, should it come about.
FWIW
ONQ.