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12/10/10 UK Youth Parliament respond to review reccomendations...read more
12/10/10 Review reccomendations announced...read more
11/10/10 Rajay responds to your letter
The youngest member of the review into higher education funding today responded to the open letter signed by hundreds of young people, calling for under 18's to be adequately consulted...read more
11/10/10 Rift in coalition over fees
The coalition government was today seeking a compromise over plans to make higher earning graduates pay more for their degrees as a Tory minister confirmed that a variable interest rate on student loans was a favoured option...read more
10/10/10 Lib Dem ministers 'refuse to back higher student fees'
Liberal Democrat ministers including Nick Clegg and Vince Cable will refuse to back the Coalition’s plans to raise university tuition funding, party sources have said...read more
21/09/2010 Grassroots Liberal Democrats vote for graduate tax campaign
Delegates at party conference pass motion to explore the 'possibility to build cross-party support' on the issue...read more
09/10/2010 Willetts signals way in for private universities
Plans to let more private universities into England's higher education system could feature in a new Higher Education Bill, a minister has said...read more
22/08/2010 Students should pay graduate tax not tuition fees, says Nick Clegg
Students should pay a graduate tax when they leave university, the Deputy Prime Minister said today...read more
13/08/2010 Student debts 'to reach £25,000'
Students starting university for the first time next month face graduating with debts of almost £25,000, according to research...read more.
05/08/2010 Just 1% of poorest students go to Oxbridge
Access watchdog reveals that a tiny percentage of students in England who are entitled to a full bursary end up at Oxford or Cambridge universities...read more
21/07/2010 Graduate tax proposal "rejected"
The coalition government will reject the idea of a graduate tax to pay for university fees in England, suggests a senior Conservative source...read more.
11/04/2010 Labour revolt over tuition fees
Nearly 200 candidates, just under a third of those standing, have signed up to a petition organised by the National Union of Students opposing any increase in the current £3,220 tuition fee limit...read more.
18/03/2010 UK students head overseas in search of cheaper fees and academic excellence...read more
08/03/2010 Scotland safe from tuition fees
Tuition fees for higher education will not be introduced by the present Scottish government, the education secretary has said...read more.
03/03/2010 University College Union call for Business Education Tax
Corporation tax should be increased to raise enough money to abolish university tuition fees, lecturers' leaders have urged...read more.
25/01/2010 Universities face long wait for funding increase
Universities are today warned that they face years of depressed funding, amid reductions by some in the number of degree places on offer after a £915m cut in the higher education budget...read more.
22/01/2010 Review announces public hearings
The Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance announced it will be holding public hearings as part of its first call for evidence on the 28th and 29th of January in Manchester and London...read more.
23/12/2009 Uni funding cut by £389m
The government is to cut university funding in England by a total of £398m for 2010-11 compared with this year, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said...read more.
06/12/2009 Raise student debt to pay for community work, says universities minister
David Lammy, the universities minister, has given his backing to a scheme to raise student debt to pay for the unemployed to do community work...read more.
09/11/2009 Review of student fees launched
A review of how much students in England pay for university has been launched by ministers, to be chaired by former BP chief, Lord Browne...read more.
20/10/2009 Mandelson's vision for unis
Lord Mandelson says he expects students to adopt a more consumer-led approach to their university education...read more.
28/09/2009 Parties face youth backlash on fees
The major political parties risk a backlash at the ballot box from young voters whose attitudes are hardening towards the charging of university tuition fees, a poll shows...read more.
19/09/2009 Clegg 'to axe tuition fee pledge'
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said he may be forced to abandon the party's flagship policy of scrapping university tuition fees in England...read more.
10/09/2009 Scotland face fees reintroduction call
Tuition fees should be reintroduced in Scotland, the former head of Universities Scotland has said...read more
10/06/2009 NUS launches funding Blueprint
NUS is launching a Blueprint for an alternative higher education funding system, as part of its Funding Our Future campaign. NUS' Blueprint argues that top-up fees are not the only way of funding higher education...read more..
31/03/2009 Recession dictates students' university choices
New figures out today reveal that over a third (36%) of young people are choosing their university on financial grounds, with many opting for cheaper courses or choosing a local university so they can live at home during the recession...read more.
31/03/2009 Pound symbols raise awareness of growing student debt
MYP for Staffordshire, James Greenalgh, today launched huge "clouds" of pound symbols above Parliament in protest of the current cost of university...read more.
25/02/2009 MYPs join student rally
Thousands of students marched through central London today demanding the abolition of tuition fees for university and college education...read more.
09/11/2008 Does a degree really set you up for life?
MYP James Greenalgh features in The Observer discussing the merits of a degree and raising the crucial issue of cost...read more.
06/10/2008 Tuition fees fightback
Over 9000 stickered £1 coins are to go into circulation across the UK today (Monday 6th October), highlighting the cost of tuition fees being paid by students in England and Northern Ireland over the course of a degree...read more
22/07/2008 UKYP concocts high-profile campaign against university tuition fees
The UK Youth Parliament will put stickers on thousands of pound coins in general circulation as part of a campaign to abolish university tuition fees announced today...read more |
