Sentences with phrase «own tuition fees policy»

«This unfair and shambolic tuition fee policy is now unravelling,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.

The government's addiction to its tuition fees policy has stopped thousands of would - be Muslim students going to university.

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.

The shift is being used by both the government and unions opposing the tuition fee policy to justify their points.

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 started the tuition fees policy and whatever we may wish for that massive expansion of HE, often at expense of quality, means we have to try and reform the current system.

«Wales» universities have been starved of funding due to the Labour Government's irresponsible tuition fees policy.

Not only is Labour's tuition fees policy unsustainable, but it also fails to widen access to higher education.

He also said the Sutton Trust, which has been a vocal critic of the impact of the government's tuition fee policy, would remain completely independent of government.

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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.

He also made something less than a policy when he promised to get tuition fees down to # 6,000 a year.

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.

The pledge to scrap tuition fees is the policy that voters are most likely to recall (though it's worth remembering that the Liberal Democrats» similar proposal in 2010 only led to a 1 % increase in vote share).

Abolishing tuition fees is Labour's most memorable policy from the 2017 election manifesto.

Enthusiasm among most universities to charge higher tuition fees than ministers had expected is set to exacerbate coalition tensions over the 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.

We made a successful attempt to get social liberals elected to the party's Federal Policy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuitionPolicy Committee (FPC), where we were able to defeat an attempt by the leadership to drop the policy of scrapping university tuitionpolicy of scrapping university tuition fees.

The policy on tuition fees is not a bad one.

After coming out in support of the graduate tax during his leadership campaign, Mr Miliband's favoured policy was instantly destabilised by outspoken comments from his shadow chancellor saying he still supported tuition fees, which he originally helped to bring in while in government.

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.

He explained that the policy would cover tuition fees, feeding, textbooks, free boarding as well as no charges for utility, computer and science labs or examination fees.

Blair needed similar levels of loyalty in January 2004 to introduce tuition fees, a policy firmly rejected in Scotland.

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.

The Liberal Democrat policy of scrapping tuition fees for higher education fees will remain in place, but would now come into effect over a six - year period.

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».

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

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).

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.

Key to this criticism was the Labour policy of making students pay tuition fees, which the Liberal Democrats had promised to abolish as their price of entering a coalition, but which became merely the subject of an inquiry as the coalition was formed.

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.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said that the government's austerity policies like tuition fees and the scrapping of the EMA have made things worse for young people.

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.

Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union, said raising tuition fees would be «the most regressive piece of education policy since the war» and put university «out of reach for the majority».

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.

There are other think tanks, for example, that could assess specific policy commitments — from scrapping tuition fees or reducing the level of immigration — that may take a different position to the IFS.

The report is particularly badly timed for the Lib Dems, who argued this morning that they sacrificed policies like tuition fees in order to secure items such as the pupil premium in the coalition negotiations.

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.

If we want to improve education in the university sector, it is obviously popular to say we will get rid of tuition fees, but that is not a programme — that is not a policy prospectus.

Labour would keep Trident, nationalise the railways and phase out tuition fees, among other policies