Sentences with phrase «to raise tuition fees»

In response, gold standard institutions will be permitted to raise tuition fees alongside inflation rates under the presumption that they offer a superior standard of teaching.

We will have clear yellow water with the other [parties] on raising the tuition fee cap, so let us not cause ourselves more headaches.»

The news is deeply embarrassing for party leader Nick Clegg, who has defended his party's abandonment of a pre-election pledge promising to oppose raising tuition fees by insisting the party's spending plans before the poll did not take account of the financial problems his party discovered on taking office.

She will inherit a higher education bill, which could raise tuition fees in England, with a second reading due next week.

The government victory means plans to raise the tuition fee cap to # 9,000 from September 1st 2012 will now go ahead.

He has responded to the growing pressure by apologising for breaking the party's pledge not to raise tuition fees under any circumstances — prompting a mixture of mockery and admiration online — and using the Brighton conference to push for fairer taxes in negotiations with the Conservatives.

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.

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».

And we also voted against raising tuition fees, having failed to persuade a Labour government not to renege on its promise.

Colleges raise their tuition fees every year leaving students to work out ways to meet expenses.

The Liberal Democrat leader's frank apology for having broken his pledge on raising tuition fees was originally greeted by a wall of consternation, but an auto - tuned version now set to be released as a charity single has boosted Clegg's gamble to win back lost supporters.

«The board's threat to raise tuition fees by up to $ 1400 is irresponsible and a scare tactic designed to frighten students and parents», he opines.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams asks voters to trust the party on student grants despite broken promises not to raise tuition fees in England.

And it is doing things which are unpopular and controversial like introducing spending cuts, raising tuition fees and reforming welfare.

Downing Street said Mr Hughes — who abstained in the Commons vote on raising tuition fees — agreed to take up the unpaid role as an «access advocate» to persuade parents and children from poor backgrounds they will be able to afford a university education when the new fees come into effect.

The government had just voted to raise tuition fees to # 9,000 and the popularity of the Lib Dems was at an all - time low.

I raised tuition fees, where Ed Miliband promised a costed and credible offer, and fracking, which is becoming a hot issue and where Labour's safeguards may not go far enough.

MPs will debate the plan to raise tuition fees to # 9,000 a year asstudents stage their third and largest national demonstration against the plans.

Laws rightly points out that the party was already sinking in the polls before it reneged on its election pledge not to raise tuition fees; going into coalition had been toxic in itself.

«By raising tuition fees, [the universities] are not giving us a choice anymore,» says Sharanowski.

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams has asked voters to trust the party's pledges on student grants despite broken promises not to raise tuition fees in England.

Over the subsequent few decades, universities have raised tuition fees each year.

They would raise tuition fees, and customers (students) would gamely take out ever - increasing loans to pay for them.