Sentences with phrase «tuition fees increase»

Labour MPs could move a motion to delay Tuition Fee increases until after the next election.

Since the university tuition fee increases of 2015, going to university is now a substantial financial commitment, with the average student spending up to # 50,000 on tuition and maintenance fees in the UK.

Student debt levels are higher than anywhere except the United States, after tuition fee increases in England

Likewise, Ontario had a tuition freeze until 2006, then permitted annual tuition fee increases up to 5 % (8 % for graduate schools), and now limits increases to 3 % (5 % for graduate schools).

BC once instituted and maintained a multi-year tuition freeze, but since 2005 has limited annual tuition fee increases to 2 %.

Not exact matches

«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.

For instance, Quebec is tax uncompetitive compared to many other provinces, and has, for instance, made a choice to fund childcare and certain other social services at the cost of privatized health - care and, now, increased tuition fees.

In the context of post-secondary education, the Party promises to reduce tuition fees to 1999 - 2000 levels and fully fund a tuition freeze thereafter; reduce student loan interest rates; increase the availability of post-secondary and trade spaces in the province; and support initiatives to build additional student housing.

Compare that to an increase of 21 percent for all items — and that's just tuition and fees.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for college tuition and fees increased 63 percent between January 2006 and July 2016.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

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.

Since entering the Commons, Corbyn has defied the Labour whips on hundreds of occasions, including voting against the Iraq war, ID cards and increasing tuition fees.

Scottish first minister Jack McConnell has insisted he has no plans to introduce tuition fees, after the parliament voted to increase fees for English medical students by 125 per cent.

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called today for students to pay more towards the cost of university, including increased tuition fees and higher student loan interest rates.

In justifying the raising of the cap on tuition fees to # 9,000, the coalition has made it a cornerstone of their argument that universities which charge more than # 6,000 will have to demonstrate they are increasing access to poorer students.

It was after all, seven years ago and as I continue to remind people, the Labour Party twice promised not to introduce increased tuition fees and did so, despite having pledged the opposite.

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.

Labour says the increased tuition fee charges will cost the taxpayer because of the subsidy paid on student loans.

The pledge to scrap tuition fees is the policy that voters are most likely to recall (though it's worth remembering that the Liberal Democrats» similar proposal in 2010 only led to a 1 % increase in vote share).

As a record number of students fight for university places ahead of the increase in fees next year, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published new analysis of the recent higher education white paper highlighting tuition fees» effect on relative disadvantage.

Plans to increase the cap on tuition fees from # 3,300 to # 9,000 have dominated politics since the Browne review issued its report - and are being brought to a head by ministers determined to resolve the issue once and for all.

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«These blows come on top of the abolition of the EMA and an increase in university tuition fees.

When they were touting for votes they promised to remove tuition fees or at least oppose an increase in their rates.

Dr Cable, Nick Clegg and their colleagues campaigned on a promise to fight any increase to tuition fees and work towards their abolition.

In the event, Clegg did not abstain on the vote to increase tuition fees (from # 3,290 a year to a maximum of # 9,000); six months into government, he voted in favour.

This is an announcement with one eye on a looming general election, but no one will forget that this is the same person who before the last election signed a pledge that there would be no increase in tuition fees.»

In a seat with a high student population she resigned as parliamentary private secretary to Chris Huhne in order to rebel against increasing student tuition fees.

Senior figures, including Mr Clegg and Danny Alexander, wanted to drop the policy of scrapping tuition fees but the party's campaign department ordered every candidate to sign the NUS pledge to «vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament».

Both divisions tonight - on increasing the upper tuition fees limit to # 9,000 and on raising the cap on basic tuition fees to # 6,000 - saw identical results: 323 votes in favour and 302 votes against.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Norman Lamb said the Liberal Democrats had learned an «extremely painful lesson» from raising tuition fees to # 9,000 while in coalition government with the Conservatives, despite ex-leader Nick Clegg's pledge to vote against any increase.

Last week's vote on tuition fees will only increase this group's anger with its Lib Dem partners.

According to him, «government put it on record that it has not authorized any increment in the tuition fees in all the state owned tertiary institutions and that only ancillary fees were increased by institutions authorities based on some considerations.

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

Amid massive protests in Westminster later that year, Lib Dem MPs voted through an increase in tuition fees which would see some students paying three times more than under Labour for their degree tuition.

The decision to increase tuition fees was the most «heart wrenching» for Nick Clegg, he has admitted.

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.

In March 2011, an application for a Judicial Review in the High Court was lodged by two teenagers, Callum Hurley and Katy Moore, who claimed the increase in tuition fees breached the European Convention on Human Rights.

It was particularly notable that apprehensions about the abolition of the education maintain allowance (EMA) figured nearly as prominently as those concerning increases in tuition fees to pay for possible shortfalls in university funding.

The first evidence has emerged of a drop in university applications following the increase in 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».

The polling, all in Lib Dem - held seats, was done 10 days before last week's key parliamentary vote to increase university tuition fees to up to # 9,000 a year, which saw the party's MPs split three ways and the coalition's Commons majority slashed by three quarters.

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

The second option is for an increase in the maximum value of tuition fees payable through the Student Loan Company (SLC).

Prior to the General Election many Liberal Democrat MPs signed a pledge to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

In December, the government voted to increase the tuition fee threshold to a maximum of # 9,000.

Aled Roberts AM, has described the Wales Audit Office report on «Higher education finances» as «deeply embarrassing» for the Welsh Government after it revealed that the estimated cost of the Tuition Fee Grant has increased by 24 %, from  # 653 million to  # 809 million.