Sentences with phrase «on tuition fees»

But, in truth, the coalition would do better to remove the cap on tuition fees altogether.

Breaking a promise on tuition fees doesn't count.

The crucial vote on tuition fees takes place tomorrow.

The policy on tuition fees is not a bad one.

The government will be reviewing higher education funding this autumn, however it is believed that they will leave any final decisions on tuition fees until after the general election.

If they required us to compromise on tuition fees or NHS reform or welfare reforms, these were all the sort of detailed matters one might negotiate with Labour over.

This has been done by reducing or eliminating grants, by increasing tuition fees, and increasing the interest rate on tuition fees funded through the student loan system.

Traditional university student funding normally ignore these expenses and concentrate on tuition fees.

The process of claiming a tax deduction on the tuition fee that is paid for a child's education every month or in every year is not a long drawn out one at all.

It is worthwhile therefore to avail the tax benefits that are made available specifically on tuition fees that are paid towards the education of a child.

It is widely expected that it will recommend raising the cap on tuition fees.

But the man who promised a new politics was guilty of the worst kind of politics when he broke his promise on tuition fees.

Last week's vote on tuition fees will only increase this group's anger with its Lib Dem partners.

President Aaron Porter told the Observer newspaper his team would bid to highlight the Lib Dems» U-turn on tuition fees by focusing their efforts on Lib Dems in vulnerable university seats like Cambridge, Bristol, Bath and even Nick Clegg's own Sheffield.

Ahead of a Commons vote tomorrow on the government's controversial plans to increase tuition fees, and following my blog yesterday with photographs of the Tory MP Ben Wallace which appear to show him holding a copy of the NUS pledge on tuition fees, I have been sent this better picture of Ben Wallace holding the pledge which does indeed suggest that he amended it, as he says:

«He reminded the House of the debate on tuition fees here in 2004.

In political terms, the volte face on tuition fees marks a further - and welcome - erosion in the credibility of the Liberal Democrats» own byzantine policy - making process.

[36] However, Davis refused and remained a critic of the government on its stance on tuition fees.

[130][131] In September 2011, Miliband stated that a future Labour Government would immediately cut the cap on tuition fees for university students from # 9,000 per year to # 6,000, though he also stated that he remained committed to a graduate tax in the long - run.

Mr Cable said he warmed to Browne's recommendation that higher earners pay a real interest rate on their tuition fee loans and no graduate should begin to start repaying until they earn # 21,000 (the current threshold is # 15,000).

President Aaron Porter told the Observer newspaper he hopes to «undermine» the coalition's «wafer - thin mandate» on cuts to higher education funding and on tuition fees by campaigning against Lib Dem MPs in seats where the party relies on a large number of student votes.

Plans to increase the cap on tuition fees from # 3,300 to # 9,000 have dominated politics since the Browne review issued its report - and are being brought to a head by ministers determined to resolve the issue once and for all.

At some point will the BBC explore the Labour party's position on the Tuition fees vote?

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Chris Huhne is to stay at the international climate change talks in Cancún, even though his absence will cost the government a vote in the crucial Commons division on tuition fees tomorrow, it has been announced.

While universities in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales can choose to participate in TEF, where they do and a TEF rating is secured, that rating has not impacted on tuition fees.

Rather than relying solely on tuition fees, we generate a significant proportion of our funding from hiring companies that pay us a fee when they convert their interns to graduate hires after the program.

Likewise, Corbyn has pledged to scrap tuition fees in England but the Welsh Labour manifesto discusses the Diamond Review into Higher Education in Wales and the Welsh government's pledge to help with the cost of living during university, as opposed to focusing on tuition fees.

Universal infant free school meals, introduced by the coalition government in 2014, already costs the taxpayer more than # 600 million a year, but Labour claims it can raise # 1.5 billion by charging VAT on tuition fees charged by independent schools.

The crunch vote on tuition fees takes place this afternoon, as analysts wait to see how the convulsions within the Lib Dems, under pressure over their pre-election pledge to oppose any rise in fees, will play out in the voting lobbies.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband delivered their angriest and most colourful PMQs yet, as the two party leaders clashed on tuition fees.

The Lib Dems» accommodation with the Conservatives on tuition fees after they entered Government in 2010 completely shredded their reputation for honesty - and they've never truly recovered.

At the 2009 conference, the SLF mobilised effectively against a further move by the leadership on tuition fees.

As if an apology, distributed, remixed and recently digitally marketed, wasn't enough, Nick Clegg in a Q+A session today was again confronted with not only the issue he has apologised for — reneging on his tuition fee pledge — but also on the very nature of the apology itself.

We made a promise on tuition fees which was not kept - a U-turn which Clegg himself has apologised for on live television.

Eeyores reckon that the party's 2010 election performance was a disaster, given the promise held out by its poll surge following the first televised leaders» debate, and they argue that Nick Clegg's credibility since backing the coalition's line on tuition fees has been very costly.

After joining the coalition poll ratings for the party fell, [67] particularly following the government's support for raising the cap on tuition fees with Liberal Democrat MPs voting 27 for, 21 against and 8 abstaining.

Since my election you've shown me genuine support for my abstention on tuition fees, my election to the 1922 Executive, the party's initial views on boundary changes and my fight with the FA; it is support that has been much appreciated.

As Rob Hutton notes of party leader Nick Clegg: a public apology on tuition fees, a weekly phone - in show and being rude about David Cameron and Boris Johnson have done little to change the public mood toward him and his party.

But reading the coalition agreement, it looks as if the Lib Dems knew from the start that they would be screwed on tuition fees.

Lucky that his Deputy's volte - face on tuition fees helped to doom the Yes to AV campaign.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Simon Hughes: Hughes, the deputy leader of the Lib Dems, frustrated the Coalition on tuition fees - by not committing to voting for, or against the policy, then criticising the plans, then abstaining on the vote, then agreeing to be a «social mobility tsar», and then criticising the policy some more.

Nick Clegg's policy switch on tuition fees is an examples of what happens when you don't shape shift with finesse.

Since the reduction in 2011, the government has notput a penny on the tuition fees».

A website registered with Liberal Democrat headquarters was redirected to a video mocking Nick Clegg for breaking his promise on tuition fees today.

The sections on the damage Lib Dems have taken was admirably — and necessarily — frank, although the paragraphs on tuition fees were much less of a «mea culpa» than they first appeared.

Vince Cable may be running a government department responsible for bringing in the controversial higher education funding overhaul, but look at his carefully chosen words in a debate on tuition fees yesterday afternoon.