Sentences with phrase «tuition fee hikes»

Protesters opposing Quebec student tuition fee hikes demonstrate in Montreal, August 22, 2012 (Photo: Graham Hughes / CP)

There is still four - and - a-half years until the planned date of the next general election, but student anger against the tuition fees hike backed by the Lib Dems - who signed a pledge promising to oppose any increase before the general election - is unlikely to fade away.

It is Hughes» job to ensure, even with tuition fees hiked to a maximum # 9,000, that this does not happen.

One experienced officer claimed the violence seen outside parliament as MPs voted to back the tuition fees hike was worse than that seen in the Poll Tax riots, Sir Paul claimed.

The Treasury is reportedly looking at the possibility of a graduate tax for students rather than a tuition fee hike.

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On tuition fees, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «If they want a debate on fees they could start by allowing one in the Commons on their latest fee hike, along with a vote.

This one comes after the following narrative series: tuition fees (terrible for the Lib Dems); Cable threatening his «nuclear option» (disastrous for the Lib Dems); VAT hike (bad for the coalition - but especially the Lib Dems).

John Denham, Labour's shadow business secretary, commented: «The gvernment's latest attempts to shore up its plans for a massive hike in tuition fees simply show that their plans are not worked out.

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.

Today, 10,000 students are expected to take to the streets of London complaining about the hike in tuition fees to a maximum of up to # 9K per year.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

You are right that DeFran voted for huge tax increases along with all the fees, tuition and toll hikes and other gimmicks.

What we are faced with now is not just the obvious further commodifying of education through the hike in tuition fees; it's also the virtual abandonment of any real State funding of either the Arts or the Humanities.

Opposition MPs reacted with scorn when he insisted that the plans to hike tuition fees to # 9,000 were an improvement on Labour's system.

GBENGA ADENIJI writes about the fee hike in some Nigerian public universities which is posing a threat to the academic sojourn of most students It was like a nightmare when Bowale Aderemi (not real name) heard that the N25, 000 tuition fee he normally pays at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, was no -LSB-...]

Although the students will mobilise into an almost army - like campaigning force, Clegg will be fortunate in that the students most angry and unconditioned to the tuition fee price hikes will have moved on, saddled with large debt, whilst the new intake will be more used to this policy and less angry.

The last thing they want to do is find themselves defending a giant hike in tuition fees.

Imperial can't hike tuition fees, which are set by the government, so Sykes plans to copy an American tradition: tap alumni for cash.

By a vote of 1628 to 26, members of the statewide union of so - called academic student employees ratified the 3 - year contract granting them an immediate and retroactive 1.5 % pay increase, future pay hikes tied to faculty raises, and continued complete remission of tuition and fees (including health care fees) despite recent, sharp increases in these charges.

The siblings are strongly opposed to the hike in university tuition fees, and spearheaded a scheme where a group of artists, actors and designers would pay legal costs for students caught up in protests against the rise.

Activist Artifacts Signs, posters, videos, twitter feeds, images, websites, barricades, banners, fliers, costumes, diagrams, and other material rooted in the higher education struggle against bloated administrations and boards, class, gender, and race marginalization, tuition and fee hikes, militarization and surveillance of campuses, privatization, socially unconscious investment and profiteering.

Commercial law firms have failed to be won over by Government proposals to hike university tuition fees, amid fears that mounting student debt will damage diversity efforts.

This, coupled with the fact that there is a scarcity of paid positions in social justice, and that tuition fees and student debt continue to hike, students who dreamt of building social justice careers are consistently disempowered and stripped of their happiness as they go through their law school journey.