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20 February 2015
51¸£Àû said today that the time had come for the Labour party to announce its plans for university funding. Speculation about whether or not Labour will cut fees to…
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12 February 2015
51¸£Àû today welcomed Labour's guarantee to protect the education budget. In a speech this morning, Labour leader Ed Miliband said a Labour government would protect…
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12 February 2015
51¸£Àû today welcomed the Liberal Democrats' pledge, on the front page of its general election manifesto, to guarantee funding from nursery to college. The move would…
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2 February 2015
51¸£Àû says fairer tax on big business needed to fund universities Following speculation that Labour will cut tuition fees to £6,000 a year, but not guarantee to make…
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15 January 2015
Part-time student enrolments for UK higher education fell by 7% between 2012/13 and 2013/14, following a fall of 22% in the previous year when the part-time tuition…
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17 December 2014
51¸£Àû responded to today's release of the government's science and innovation strategy by backing calls from the business, innovation and skills select committee…
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11 December 2014
51¸£Àû is today calling for a fundamental review of UK research. In a report released a week before this year's REF results, 51¸£Àû says it wants to see a complete overhaul…
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10 December 2014
Flexibility should be the key driver of apprenticeship reform, 51¸£Àû told the Education Select Committee today. Giving evidence to the committee as part of its inquiry…
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4 December 2014
Students who take out a new loan to fund a master's degree will effectively be paying a 50% tax rate, said the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today. 51¸£Àû said…
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4 December 2014
Projected cuts to public spending on post-school education in the next parliament could cause serious damage to further and higher education, 51¸£Àû said today. The…
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