Sentences with phrase «slash university tuition»

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

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Tuition fees are trebled, university places slashed and youth services cut.

Leading universities want the cap on tuition fees to be lifted amid fears that higher education budgets may be slashed this summer.

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

The basic point that seems to be missing in 90 % of the commentary about tuition fees is that the damage has been done NOT by the Browne report, or in discussions around the coalition agreement, but by the Comprehensive Spending review and the slashing of teaching grants to the Universities.

Squeezed by skyrocketing healthcare and pension costs, state governments have slashed financial support for colleges and universities, which, in turn, have been forced to raise tuition and fees.