Posts Tagged ‘Tuition Fees’

Two interesting reads for Election day

1. The FT.  Britain is not broken, it has been getting better. It does make you wonder about their Conservative endorsement, huh? FT research shows that even the most deprived local authorities have shown signs of improvement over recent years when looking at figures ranging from crime and truancy to teenage pregnancies and children living [...]

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Tuition Fees have NOT put the disadvantaged off higher education

I am not sure how often this needs to be asserted.  But let’s keep doing so all the same.  As CentreForum has repeatedly argued – most recently in Time’s Up, a paper directed at the Liberal Democrats’ determination to scrap tuition fees, at great expense – the current way in which tuition fees are paid [...]

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Free the market in university education

The answer to increased funding problems for universities is to let them charge more, funded by student loans. The customers are adults

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Biggest understatement of the day so far

Apparently the Iraq War and a big recession are ‘annoying’

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Two absolutely must-reads for you economic afficanodo’s out there

Willem Buiter explains the fiscal position, the causes of the crisis, the greatness of the Mansion Tax, why higher education can take more of the fiscal strain . .. meanwhile Adam Posen’s first major speech from his MPC role is a gem, adding yet more layers to the argument about how QE works.

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LindyLooz joins battle in the War Against Arithmetic

http://lindyloosmuze.blogspot.com/2009/09/fresh-start-4-youth.html

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Reflections on Conference: Lib Dems, missed opportunity

The conference could have gone better for the Third Party.

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Leaked Treasury Document: the ideological battle over arithmetic

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that Labour’s current plans required spending cuts – nor a political scientist to understand that denying this was a very poor move.

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