Sentences with phrase «against increases in tuition»

Thousands of students are protesting against increases in tuition fees and education cuts across the country.

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

Prior to the General Election many Liberal Democrat MPs signed a pledge to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

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Senior figures, including Mr Clegg and Danny Alexander, wanted to drop the policy of scrapping tuition fees but the party's campaign department ordered every candidate to sign the NUS pledge to «vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament».

Republicans are against the free tuition proposal in favor of increasing and tweaking income eligibility for all schools in the state, including private institutions, and creating a task force on college affordability.

Both divisions tonight - on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to # 9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to # 6,000 - saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against.

Norman Lamb said the Liberal Democrats had learned an «extremely painful lesson» from raising tuition fees to # 9,000 while in coalition government with the Conservatives, despite ex-leader Nick Clegg's pledge to vote against any increase.

The Coalition government's proposed reforms to tuition fees announced in November 2010 provoked huge controversy, not least because many Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell, had signed the NUS «Vote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative».

We sorrowfully recall the death of some of our comrades who lost their lives just because they, alongside others fortunate to have escaped the governor's onslaught, were peacefully protesting against the astronomic increase in the tuition of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT.

Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott has told ITV's Good Morning Britain that Angela Eagle's support for the Iraq invasion and an increase in tuition fees show she is the «Empire Strikes Back» candidate against Jeremy Corbyn.

While their obstacles, in struggles against tuition increases or for the right to bargain collectively, are enormous, the hurdles to supporting international students are often even higher.

You may borrow against the policy's value, use the cash value to increase your income in retirement or even help pay for needs, such as a child's tuition, without canceling the policy.

The dazzling geometric patterns in After November 11, 2010 (2014) emerge from the destruction brought on by protesters raging against tuition increases in Britain.