Sentences with phrase «trebling tuition»

«Actions speak louder than words and from trebling tuition fees to scrapping the maintenance grant, the Tories» decisions have hugely increased student debt, with the most disadvantaged hit the hardest.

He said the coalition's decision to scrap the Future Jobs Fund, treble tuition fees and end the educational maintenance allowance «tell you all you need to know about their priorities».

But as the Government has trebled tuition fees, the number of people applying higher education in the creative arts at university fallen by 16 per cent.

Plans to treble tuition fees are actually more progressive than the current system, experts have found.

The unprecedented unpaid appointment was agreed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg before Christmas, and follows the huge controversy that followed the Commons decision to treble tuition fees from 2012.

They trebled tuition fees, abolished maintenance grants and left students graduating with debts of up to # 57,000.

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Admission is more difficult, tuition has trebled, academic demands are almost universally stiffer.

Crucially, it meant he did not break a 2010 manifesto pledge of opposing a rise in university tuition fees; the Lib Dems never really recovered from their ministers voting for a trebling of fees.

«This new blow to young people from this government comes on top of cuts to Sure Start, the abolition of EMA, the trebling of tuition fees and the closure of career advice services across the country.

Nick Clegg's apology about breaking his 2010 election pledge to scrap tuition fees may not have the effect he hopes for — what with students who are the first to be hit with the trebled # 9000 tuition fees starting fresher's week.

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

Many of the children who expected a C but got a D grade in this year's GCSE fiasco are also those who will have been affected by the reduction of the EMA, the trebling of university tuition fees and will be at higher risk of unemployment.

This is largely because the party is not committing to cut university tuition fees, which they controversially voted to treble as part of the coalition in 2010 months after campaigning to scrap them in the general election.

«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?»

«His [the prime minister's] claim to be protecting the next generation by making this his only priority is blown apart because they are bearing so much of the burden for his decisions: from cuts to sure start to the end of educational maintenance allowances to the trebling of tuition fees,» he continued.

You only had to listen to the chants outside parliament as MPs voted through a trebling of tuition fees: «Tory scum».

The Liberal Democrats ran into fresh trouble today when the party» shigher education spokeswoman in the Lords, Lady Sharp, said she was not sure she could vote tomorrow for the coalition government's trebling of tuition fees.

Then they abandoned it in the coalition agreement — and, worse still, many of them voted with the Tories for a trebling of tuition fees.

It's unlikely Eagle will be a hit with young voters either — having voted both to introduce tuition fees in 1998, and then to treble them in 2004.