Sentences with phrase «to abolish tuition fees»

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.

Class, pay attention: university education for the whole Germany is free after lower Saxony became last state in the country to abolish tuition fees for students, including those from overseas.

As opinion polls and results from local and European Parliament elections showed, promising to abolish tuition fees at the last election proved to be a colossal error.

The party plans to reintroduce maintenance grants for the poorest students, but there is no commitment to abolish tuition fees in England.

Each candidate made a campaign pledge before the 2010 general election that, if elected to government, the Lib Dems would abolish tuition fees outright.

Increasing Business Education Tax to the G7 average of 32.87 p and hypothecating the extra revenue to higher education would generate enough annually to abolish tuition fees.

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

His left - wing positions are by now firmly established, and he confirmed his opposition to the private finance initiative, his desire to abolish tuition fees and his determination to re-introduce the 50 % top rate of income tax.

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

Half (50 %) stated that they would be more likely if a party pledged to renationalise the railways (versus 17 % who said they would be less likely); and almost half (48 %) stated that they would be more likely if a party pledged to abolish tuition fees (versus 19 % who said they would be less likely).

But while Labour's pledge to abolish tuition fees was a major part of its election campaign, there was no promise to write off student debts - worth # 100 billion - in the party's manifesto.

He advocates far higher taxes on the wealthy, whacking up inheritance tax, much more stringent penalties for wayward bankers, abolishing tuition fees, introducing rent regulations, radically increasing the minimum wage and getting companies to reduce the gap between the highest and lowest earners.

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.

Rob Wilson: The Lib Dem leader campaigned on a promise to abolish tuition fees but confidential papers show he had no such intention

«The fair solution is to abolish tuition fees and ensure that graduate contributions are based on actual earnings in the real world, rather than sticker prices in prospectuses, which are based on guesswork.»

To do so it would abolish tuition fees, restore grants and meet the student loan repayments of Scottish domiciled graduates.

The party's leader Nick Clegg told a conference rally in Bournemouth they had to be «realistic» about the promise to abolish tuition fees, as new figures out today show total public borrowing has risen above # 800bn for the first time.

«What about Nick Clegg (and he's far from the only one) who solemnly declared he would abolish tuition fees and then voted to treble them?»

Labour is effectively saying that Britain's civil servants will be able to renationalise the railways, water utilities, the National Grid, Royal Mail, create regional public energy companies, a National Education Service and a National Care Service, create a large National Investment Bank and regional development banks, build a million homes and abolish tuition fees - to name just a few - at the same time as managing Brexit negotiations and their fallout.

In the event of a minority Labour administration at Westminster, these Conservative MPs would be able to block a Labour government's English (and English and Welsh) bills, including its plan to abolish tuition fees.

«We want to abolish tuition fees.

Earlier that month Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon challenged the Liberal Democrat leader on whether he had any idea where the money would come from to abolish tuition fees.

The move is designed to ease Lib Dem concerns about the policy, which directly contradicts their manifesto pledge to abolish tuition fees.

Higher education funding: Lib Dems allowed to abstain on votes - reflecting party's promise to abolish tuition fees in the long term

The deputy leader made a rather strange suggestion about how the Lib Dems should have handled the fact all its MPs pledged to abolish tuition fees and the coalition then tripled them.

Re-industrialisation, public investment and public procurement to support industry, proper apprenticeships or university places for all — and abolish tuition fees.

That is different to whether Labour's pledge to abolish tuition fees was effective or not.

Labour will abolish tuition fees, bring back maintenance grants and provide free, lifelong education in further education colleges.»