Sentences with phrase «on tuition policy»

Today the Cooper Union board of trustees met for the first time after the college's Working Group on tuition policy finished its deliberations.

Lee told NYU Local that the date of the trustees» decisive vote on tuition policy has been pushed back from Wednesday, December 5, to January.

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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.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced stiff opposition on the weekend after he refused to categorically stand behind abolishing tuition fees in the future - previously a key Lib Dem education policy.

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

[100] Miliband subsequently unveiled five pledges at a rally in Birmingham which would form the focus of a future Labour government, specifically identifying policies on deficit reduction, living standards, the NHS, immigration controls and tuition fees.

Cuomo cited recent accomplishments such as a higher minimum wage, free college tuition and paid family leave as an alternative to the policies emerging on the national level.

The policy on tuition fees is not a bad one.

The second apologia is that the Lib Dem leadership concluded before the election that their policy on tuition fees was unsustainable.

I'm sure they now think it is an even better idea than putting 5p on plastic bags, an idea David Laws assures me is the most popular policy the LibDems have put forward since, er, the abolition of tuition fees.

Arguably now's the time if he's ever going to do it to use the assets he's got a bit more wisely and apply them to things like the debate on tuition fees that they're having at the moment about what the policy is, how they're going to pay for it.

The about - turn in Lib Dem policy follows hot on the heels of the sacrifice of the policy aim to abolish tuition fees, which caused significant discontent in the party.

He wants to find a common policy on university funding so the Liberal Democrats, who want to phase out tuition fees, do not need to exercise their right to abstain in Parliament.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

There have been some successes of course, and Clegg appealed to voters not to judge his party on one failed policy — which must have been a reference to tuition fees — and to look to the «countless» policies that have worked out.

The deal on electoral reform was crucial to the negotiations — and more crucial than the Lib Dems» own policy on tuition fees, it appears.

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).

He threatened to abstain on his own tuition fees policy, admitted he thought about resigning over his BSkyB gaffe, and also implied he might prefer life outside government.

We now represent a swathe of seats in university towns where middle class Labour voters were won over by our policy on tuition fees and our uncompromising internationalism on Iraq.

In her acceptance speech, Nixon, 52, voiced the view of her nearly 200 backers who gathered in the ballroom at the basement of the Albany Hilton: Cuomo's move to the left on free college tuition, minimum wage and other policies was too little, too late.

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

This 2011 report centres on the prevalence of skills shortages, how government policy such as tuition fee rises and removal of the Default Retirement Age will affect the workforce, recruitment practices of graduates and apprentices, and whether organisations are rewarding or making redundant their employees.

Not many people have given consideration to the Lib Dem manifesto policy on tuition 1.

The party have backed their leader on the economy, on tuition fees, on energy, on defence policy.

And that's why Ed Miliband, when asked about his policy towards tuition fees, told his audience to «watch this space...» Any policy, the Labour leader promised, would be properly costed, as he vowed not to repeat the Liberal Democrats» disastrous u-turn on fees in 2010.

A significant clampdown on the number of international students coming to Britain could force tuition fees up further, the Institute for Public Policy Research has argued.

The Lib Dem leader is keen to use his drug policy to win back votes from young people he may have lost over tuition fees, but there's a price to be paid for that and the Daily Mail and right - wing think tanks are intent on making sure he pays it.

And she turned her back on Labour's policy of reducing tuition fees.

He is seen as a key figure on the left of the party and his candidacy has been helped by the fact that he kept his hands clean of the coalition's most unpopular policies, voting against the bedroom tax and, crucially, higher tuition fees.

Diane felt Ed Milliband was trying to move to the left and his lower tuition fees policy was a positive move, as was his proposal for a freeze on energy prices.

Labour's much anticipated but yet - to - be confirmed policy to reduce the cap on university tuition fees from # 9,000 to # 6,000 a year will be highly expensive, could leave universities # 10 billion out of...

Those rising tensions were coupled with a conference agenda which included votes on economic policy, tax rates, energy, nuclear weapons and the dreaded tuition fees.

Clinton, who prides herself on the details of public policy, has said little about what is now the most ambitious and expensive proposal on her agenda: making public college tuition free for most Americans.

Although the students will mobilise into an almost army - like campaigning force, Clegg will be fortunate in that the students most angry and unconditioned to the tuition fee price hikes will have moved on, saddled with large debt, whilst the new intake will be more used to this policy and less angry.

Callers especially honed in on education spending and policy, tax policy and the Dream Act, which would give people living in the country illegally who came here as children access to state college tuition - assistance programs.

One major hurdle to an on - time budget, DeFrancisco said, is Cuomo's proposal for free public - university tuition.He said the free tuition proposal is just another example of the way Cuomo has pushed for expensive policies that drive out «productive» state residents like business owners and taxpayers.

Clegg told the Guardian on Saturday that a new era of fiscal tightening meant that, among other costly policies, he could not guarantee that his party's # 12bn pledge to scrap tuition fees would be in its next manifesto.

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

With the party divided between social and economic liberals, debates on nuclear power, the economy, tuition fees, green policy and taxation are unlikely to yield unanimous responses, resulting in internal division which may hinder the party's ability to project a clear and consistent message in the run up to 2015.

Brodsky says if you look at Cuomo's policies, he's fiscally conservative on issues like curbing state spending and capping property taxes, but socially liberal on items like raising the minimum age, defending women's reproductive rights, and offering free tuition at public colleges, an idea first proposed by 2016 Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders.

He added: If I had upwards of # 2 billion (a year) to spend on any policy, I would direct it into early - years education and childcare, not a reduction in tuition fees.»

On to the Lib Dems, where Nick Clegg talked of «savage cuts», a mansion tax and some confusing recanting of flagship commitments such as scrapping tuition fees, as the parties sought to cut their policy cloth to the problem at hand.

Johnson outlined in the Guardian the view that tuition fees allow the Government to reconcile its three policy objectives for undergraduate higher education: to reduce inequality, to fund institutions on a level which facilitates global competitiveness, and also to share the cost «between the individual student benefitting from a graduate earnings premium and taxpayers in general, most of whom will not have attended university.»

As a student representative on the Council on Postsecondary Education in Kentucky, Quarles helped developed policy to cap tuition increases in state public universities - where public institutions had raised tuition as much as 23 percent in one year.

To date, the policy has set the stage as standard policy on public institutions and raising tuition.

I cut my own policy teeth back in the 1970s on the «Packwood Moynihan Tuition Tax Credit» bill — which passed the House but was then killed by feverish public - school lobbying.)

In 2011, Chilean students staged massive protests against the country's education policies that they criticized as overly reliant on free - market principles — mainly that higher education institutions charged relatively high tuition and many students borrowed to finance their education.

This builds on an existing policy that allows employees to have the same amount of education expenses (e.g., college tuition) paid tax - free by their employer each year.

In 2014, Mikyong Minsun Kim of The George Washington University and Jongwan Ko of Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, published a study that examined the effects of state policies on tuition at public universities between 1998 and 2007.