Sentences with phrase «tuition fee cut»

The much deferred announcement is due at the end of the month, but some senior vice chancellors last month infuriated the Labour front bench by issuing an open letter opposing the tuition fee cut only days after meeting the shadow higher education minister, Liam Byrne.

Not exact matches

Already it has faced anger in constituencies where much - needed new schools were cancelled, and protests from students and school - children at cuts in EMAs and higher tuition fees.

The cut in tuition fees might signal the fact that Miliband has taken this lesson on board.

But on the basics of tax and spend, they have persistently made non-progressive choices - tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich; scrapping the Child Trust Fund; phasing out tuition fees.

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

Students will show their displeasure at cuts and tuition fees in a symbolic act of protest later today, as demonstrators head to Conservative offices in North London.

«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.

Most swing voters aren't persuaded by the case for near - revolution; but they are persuaded by more money for the NHS, opposition to so - called education cuts, and changes to tuition fees.

The University and College Union warned that tuition fees of nearly # 7,000 would end up becoming the norm because of the government's wider cuts to higher education funding, however.

Further cuts may be necessary to address an emerging funding problem with tuition fees, MPs have said.

[130][131] In September 2011, Miliband stated that a future Labour Government would immediately cut the cap on tuition fees for university students from # 9,000 per year to # 6,000, though he also stated that he remained committed to a graduate tax in the long - run.

«And I feel let down by his foolish plan to cut university tuition fees to # 6,000.

While the NHS reforms are not a Council responsibility, they and the other issues around benefit reforms and tuition fees, not to mention local govt cuts sent down from the Coalition, and which we are complicit in approving are killing morale.

The report found that 49 of England's 130 higher education institutions will face serious financial trouble as a result both of an 80 % cut to teaching budgets and the impact of the government's plans to raise the cap for tuition fees to # 9,000.

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

His blushing beau hastily abandoned vows to fight early spending cuts, a VAT hike and tuition fee rises in his rush to make the match work.

A Higher Education Bill will force universities to come clean over data that reveals poor standards and see a cut in the level of tuition fees they charge.

It also remains to be seen whether the Blairites in Labour Students can hang onto control of the student movement as tuition fees and lower grants and spending cuts start to bite.

(2) agreeing as a «compromise» to positions where both parties decide to agree to do something they had [both] promised not to (child benefit changes), and also where one party places little no weight on a pledge it suggested was a binding commitment (LD tuition fees; Cameron where there are NHS cuts).

My first reaction was that Labour would have failed in its political duty if it had not brought the Lib Dems» broken promises on tuition fees, VAT, cuts and child benefit to the attention of Kentish Town residents.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Hinds was asked to replace Justine Greening because she was unwilling to consider a cut in university tuition fees and was insufficiently warm...

Today Ed Miliband announced that a Labour government would cut university tuition fees from # 9000 to # 6000 a year.

Another choice we've said we'd make differently is on taxation and tuition fees — while under the Conservative - led government banks are benefiting from a 5 per cent cut in corporation tax, — Labour thinks that money would be better used bringing down the cap on tuition fees, to help young people worried about the costs of going to university.

Researchers at the IFS estimate that the cuts will hit higher education, as funding to universities has been cut by 40 %, but some of that shortfall will be recouped with increased tuition fees.

Shutting the door to international students won't pay young people's tuition fee debts, and ditching doctors from abroad won't cut NHS waiting lists...

Labour is promising a «new deal» for teachers which will include cutting tuition fees for those who work in poorer areas.

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

Thousands of students are protesting against increases in tuition fees and education cuts across the country.

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.

«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.

Universities that charge # 9,000 in tuition fees could face overall funding cuts, David Willetts said today.

«With a tighter control on places, a brutal 80 % cut to the teaching budget for this coming academic year and a sharp rise in tuition fees from September 2012, the Government is throttling diversity in higher education.

3 The Lib Dems called for «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees», a cut in the number of government ministers, a four - year, fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

Labour's plans to tax non-doms and mansions or freeze energy prices were popular, while middle - class voters were wooed with tuition - fee and small - business tax cuts.

Tagged: Alan Johnson · Deficit · Ed Miliband · Graduate Tax · Public Service Cuts · Tuition fees

He is due to deliver a speech to Universities UK as Labour continues to discuss whether to propose a cut in the maximum level of the tuition fee from # 9,000 to # 6,000.

The rise in university tuition fees and the speed and depth of cuts to public spending are particular bones of contention.

• What I've picked up from the Liberal Democrat conference so far is that Nick Clegg wants to cut the pay of classroom assistants, home helps, lollipop men and women and other low - paid public sector workers, to means test middle - class mums to decide whether they deserve child benefit, and to keep tuition fees.

Social mobility is core liberal stuff, but in 2012, the legacy of cuts, tuition fees, EMA and other contentious coalition - bred proposals like the Beecroft Report will be a battleground on which Clegg must win.

In short, Angela Eagle represents everything New Labour was: the introduction of tuition fees, cuts to welfare, the invasion of Iraq, an anti-democratic culture and endless spin and deception, culminating in an embrace of austerity.

Voter apathy among the 18 - 24 age group has seen the advent of tuition fees and cuts to housing benefit and student grants.

Speaking at Leeds School of Music yesterday, Mr Miliband said his pledge to cut tuition fees was «cast - iron», adding: «The scourge of debt from tuition fees is not only holding back our young people, it is a burden on our country.

On to the Lib Dems, where Nick Clegg talked of «savage cuts», a mansion tax and some confusing recanting of flagship commitments such as scrapping tuition fees, as the parties sought to cut their policy cloth to the problem at hand.

Ontario universities are feeling the pinch after years of sustained cuts in provincial operating budgets — cuts that, when combined with the effects of inflation and the existing cap on increases in undergraduate tuition fees, have left the universities with little room to maneuver.

Starting in 2012, money is likely to become an even more important concern for students as universities in England are allowed to charge undergraduates up to # 9000 per year ($ 14,200 or $ 10,300) in tuition fees as a way of dealing with government funding cuts.

Luke Rothwell, director at Bunkabin, the parent company of the Student Village Company, says: «With students still attending university despite rises in tuition fees and the cutting of support, such as the maintenance grant, many are having to fork out for very expensive accommodation outside of their chosen university.

«In just one year the government has scrapped maintenance grants, NHS bursaries, cut the disabled students» allowance to the bone, changed loan repayment terms to make graduates pay back their loans faster and is now planning a further rise in tuition fees.

If we could only DRM these ebooks and other material up tighter than a duck's wotsit, then we'd save ourselves money and maybe be able to cut tuition fees into the bargain.

The tuition and fees deduction has been eliminated under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.