tuition fees Articles

There was a clear, simple and overriding message delivered by George Osborne from the dispatch box yesterday; do not be young. Do not be young and try and get a university education, unless you’re prepared to go it alone. Do not be young and try to enter the...

Amid all the soul-searching and data-crunching of the past few weeks, one statistic haunts me more than any other. By a margin of 39 points, people who voted on 7 May said the Conservatives would manage the economy more effectively than Labour. That is not a small gap...

In 2010, the first big flashpoint for the coalition government was the very public and very brutal, at least for the Liberal Democrats, clash over whether to increase tuition fees. The independent Browne review suggested no fee cap whatsoever. The Liberal Democrat...

A better plan for a better future – Five parliamentary candidates present Labour’s five pledges to Britain Tuition fees reduced to £6,000, an apprenticeship for every school leaver who gets the basic grades, and smaller class sizes for five-, six- and seven-year-olds...