Sentences with phrase «tuition fee reform»

Scholarships should be allocated directly to English schools to reduce the impact of tuition fee reforms, Simon Hughes has proposed.

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There are long passages expressing his frustrations over public service reform and his conflicts with Brown on breaking up previous monopoly state provision, notably over academies, foundation hospitals and over tuition fees.

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.

He has interviewed dozens of those at the centre and writes about the relationship between Cameron and Clegg, the Lib Dem fall from grace over tuition fees, the «surprise» of Lansley's NHS reform, the clash over AV and Lords reform, the decision to intervene in Libya, the debate over the EU, single - sex marriage, «Plebgate» and above all else the economy and austerity measures.

Douglas Alexander told the Scottish Labour conference that his party should hold the Lib Dems to account for their role in implementing policies such as welfare reform and a rise in tuition fees.

The deal on electoral reform was crucial to the negotiations — and more crucial than the Lib Dems» own policy on tuition fees, it appears.

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.

Things are coming full circle for Clegg as he receives a question on why people should trust him on Lords reform after his u-turn on tuition fees.

The Coalition government's proposed reforms to tuition fees announced in November 2010 provoked huge controversy, not least because many Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell, had signed the NUS «Vote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative».

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

Sir Vince Cable has said the Liberal Democrats will not succeed as a one - issue «reverse Ukip» party, pledging that they will develop radical proposals for economic reforms including taxes on second homes and changes to tuition fees.

The announcement will be seen by some as a personal blow to the authority of Clegg, who has already seen the party's cherished hopes of voting reform defeated in last year's referendum, while he has asked his MPs to vote for bills deeply unpopular with Lib Dem supporters, including higher university tuition fees and the NHS shakeup.

It is why he went into the coalition negotiations ready to drop his party's tuition fees pledge - and much else besides - but with electoral reform as non-negotiable.

Clegg twice mentioned his MPs had voted for deeply unpopular rises in tuition fees and reform of the NHS.

Labour started the tuition fees policy and whatever we may wish for that massive expansion of HE, often at expense of quality, means we have to try and reform the current system.

He voted against the war in Iraq in 2003 and opposed the introduction of tuition fees in 2004, but on other matters - such as Tony Blair's reforms of the National Health Service, he remained loyal.

«However, the coalition agreement that the Liberal Democrats should abstain on any proposals tabled in the House of Commons following Lord Browne's review of fees which they dislike, would deliver a Conservative majority for tuition fee and university funding reform.»

He insists an ambitious programme of reform can win over ordinary voters, saying: «The real middle Britain — of insecure self - employment, rip - off private pensions, unaffordable housing, mounting tuition fee debt and crisis - ridden social care — is crying out for a Labour government committed to fundamental reform.»

This reform should include means - testing tuition fees and restoring maintenance grants so poorer students face lower fees and lower debt on graduation.»

Second, the reforms increased students» liquidity — the amount of cash they could receive to support living expenses while enrolled — almost as dramatically as they increased tuition fees.

The 1998 reform: progressive economic arguments for introducing tuition [10] It was against this backdrop that the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education released the Dearing Report in 1997, which called for new tuition fees supported by an expanded and revised system of student loans.

2002 Global Science Forum Remedies: Learning from experiences Targeted actions: Initiatives to increase students» interest for S&T studies can be classified as follows: Communication (information about science & scientists, S&T careers, educational opportunities...) Innovative pedagogical tools (hands - on experience, unisex classes, schools for best students...) Incentives (tuition fees, grants, call for projects...) Educational reforms (extra orientation year, curriculum content...) Coordination, networks /

NUS Vice President, Sorana Vieru, commented: «The government's higher education reforms threaten the future of our entire education system and risk shutting students out with exorbitant tuition fees.»