Gary Gibbon
Lord Browne briefs MPs on tuition fees review
Gary Gibbon interviews Lord Browne fresh from presenting his review of higher education to a clutch of top politicians.
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Coalition’s tricky questions on Lord Browne’s university funding review
Gary Gibbon blogs on the tough choices facing the coalition government with the impending publication of Lord Browne’s review into higher education funding.
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How progressive is Lord Browne’s tuition fees system?
Lord Browne says the system of university tuition fees he is proposing is “highly progressive”. But just how progressive can it really be? FactCheck finds out.
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Student debt: the £40k question for Lord Browne
How would you like to begin your adult life with debts in excess of £40k? Writing for Channel 4 News, NUS President Aaron Porter urges Lord Browne to recall his own student days for the answer.
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University fees: will higher earners pay ‘over the odds’
The deputy prime minister’s claim that higher earners would pay “over the odds” for their university tuition under the government’s proposed scheme. Is he on firm ground?
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PledgeCheck: the Coalition cuts to their election pledges
FactCheck looks at a few of the pledges the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have dropped in the name of coalition and cost cutting.
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Up to 75 per cent of universities plan maximum tuition fees
Despite promises from the Government that English universities would charge the maximum tuition fee of £9,000 from 2012 only in “exceptional circumstances”, the opposite now appears to be the case.
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NUS President must lobby to ‘widen access to university’
As the National Union of Students announces its new President, Channel 4 News hears from young people who say more must be done to widen access to university following the hike in tuition fees.
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Government ‘betraying young people’ – Ed Miliband
The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, says young people are the victims of the Coalition Government’s deficit-cutting plan. Faisal Islam investigates.
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Nick Clegg’s bid to quell student fees protests
Deputy Prime Minister says the government’s system of tuition fees is more fair than a graduate tax. Is he right?
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Gary Gibbon
Tuition fees: getting Lib Dems in line like ‘herding frogs’
As Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms he will abstain on his own measure to reform university funding, Gary Gibbon hears from one senior Lib Dem that getting its MPs in line is like “herding frogs into a wheel barrow”.
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Student fees: Cable may abstain from vote
A senior Lib Dem tells Gary Gibbon that getting its MPs in line over the tuition fees vote is like “herding frogs”, as Business Secretary Vince Cable says he may abstain and students protest again.
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Student fees march erupts into day of violence
Hundreds of student protesters have clashed with police during a rally against higher tuition fees in London. They broke into Conservative HQ, smashing windows and wrecking a lobby.
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CutsCheck: funding shortfalls in university tuition
The cut “It is the case that a lot of the money received by Universities through the teaching grant and through HEFCE will in the future get to universities via students.” Universities Minister David Willetts, 3 November 2010 The background Today’s announcement to increase tuition fees was, said Universities Minister David Willetts, to deliver “a…
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University tuition fees: more progressive than before?
FactCheck takes a look at the measures the Coalition has added to Lord Browne’s review of higher education funding to make the system “more progressive”.
