Jon Snow
Student protests: the view from a reformed protester
Jon Snow looks back to his own days as a protester as students take to the streets over tuition fees.
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FactCheck: Are universities more elitist than in Cameron’s Oxford days?
The claim “If you look at Oxford and Cambridge – the percentage of pupils from state schools going to those universities has actually gone down over the last 20 years…Only one black person went to Oxford last year. I think that’s disgraceful.” David Cameron MP, April 11, 2011
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'Violence inevitable at tuition fees protest'
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at how violence erupted at the student demonstration against tuition fees on 9 December 2010.
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Tuition fees: Clegg’s claim is out by 100,000 students
Nick Clegg tells reporters that no part-time students will have to pay tuition fees upfront. FactCheck with Cathy Newman finds otherwise.
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Jon Snow
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FactCheck: student fees in England highest in world?
FactCheck analyses Ed Miliband’s claim that tuition fees in England will be the highest in the industrialised world – and David Cameron’s claim that students in the US pay more.
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FactCheck: how many Lib Dems will rebel over fees?
FactCheck analyses how many Liberal Democrat MPs will rebel in the vote on university tuition fees.
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FactCheck: students turn against the Lib Dems
FactCheck analyses how important the student vote is to the Liberal Democrats
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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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Tuition fees: a better deal for the rich
FactCheck has seen some some excellent number-crunching by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the government’s proposals which found that the rich will be better off than they would have been if ministers had adopted Lord Browne’s recommendations.
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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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Gary Gibbon
Universities charging below 6K ‘extremely unlikely’
The IFS has been number crunching the Tuition Fees announcement and pouring ice cold water over the government’s claim that universities will only charge more than £6,000 a year in tuition fees “in excpetional circumstances.”
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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”.
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Gary Gibbon
University funding: coalition propose tuition fees cap
So tomorrow we get the government’s way ahead on university funding. The fundamental to remember is that they have massively, gigantically scaled back their own cash commitment to universities. They are proposing a way to fill the enormous black hole.
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Gary Gibbon
Tuition fees: cheers from some but ambush planned?
Gary Gibbon looks at the floor, and ceiliing, for tuition fees following Lord Browne’s review of university funding.