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Posts Tagged: Universities & Skills

Alastair Thompson: The Augar Report’s proposals for student loan reform are a big step backwards

The Government should not be heaping what amount to extra taxes on those just getting by. For progressive change, ministers must look elsewhere.

By Alastair Thompson | 31 May 2019 | 65 comments

Iain Mansfield: £9,250 fees are bad for students, bad for society, and bad for the Conservatives

Charging the same amount for different courses does not make sense. Fees should be slashed, but with the threshold for repayments lowered.

By Iain Mansfield | 18 December 2018 | 58 comments

Nick Hillman: We must continue to expand higher education

The second in a three-part series of contributions from the ‘New Blue Book’.

By Nick Hillman | 30 September 2017 | 26 comments

Nadhim Zahawi: Why the basic rate of income tax for younger people should be cut

In an era when it is harder for young people to buy a house, or even just to pay rent, it makes sense to direct more help to them than older people who already have one.

By Nadhim Zahawi MP | 4 September 2017 | 84 comments

In the wake of A-level results, the focus is on Universities. But we need a technical education expansion.

As the Conservatives anxiously mull their prospects with younger voters, shouldn’t they think a bit more about the two-thirds who don’t go to University?

By Paul Goodman | 18 August 2017 | 58 comments

John Baron: It’s time to embrace the One-Nation message – and win

As possibly the only Brexiteer in the Parliamentary Party’s One Nation group, I am also only too aware that this message must be accompanied by a successful EU negotiation.

By John Baron MP | 16 August 2017 | 52 comments

Ministers must decide what higher education is for

Successive governments have ducked the question of which degrees are actually public goods worth spending taxpayers’ money on.

By Henry Hill | 12 August 2017 | 73 comments

Alex Morton: A modest proposal. Quotas to help another disadvantaged minority – Conservatives.

We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.

By Alex Morton | 9 August 2017 | 107 comments

James Scales: Technical education – still a pale shadow of its academic cousin

There is not enough cross-pollination between the education sector and employers. And careers advice must be dramatically improved

By James Scales | 6 August 2017 | 25 comments

The great Conservative student panic

The next manifesto might propose breaking the link between student maintenance costs and parental income by introducing a universal loan.

By Paul Goodman | 25 July 2017 | 163 comments

Corbyn’s idle promises on student debt come back to bite Labour

That the Opposition are willing to risk alienating key supporters even whilst preparing for an early election shows how dangerous they think this policy is.

By Henry Hill | 21 July 2017 | 126 comments

Prospects for the economy 2) Andy Silvester: The fundamentals are strong. But confidence is in shorter supply.

Doomsday predictions remain overblown, but the real, specific concerns of business are worth listening to nonetheless.

By Andy Silvester | 5 July 2017 | 32 comments

Salman Anwar: If we want to win student votes, never mind tuition fees. A bigger problem by far is maintenance loans.

The Party should propose a radical shake-up of this system in which we aim to break the link from parental income to the overall loan.

By Salman Anwar | 3 July 2017 | 60 comments

Scott Kelly: For jobs and prosperity, young people need better technical eduction, not more higher education

The opportunity for young people to gain high-level work related skills would also help bridge the social divide between those who have a degree and those who do not.

By Scott Kelly | 2 July 2017 | 30 comments

Andy Cook: The Conservatives don’t need a majority to transform Britain

It is perfectly possible to govern well and enact great change with very little legislation. In fact, it can even be a blessing.

By Andy Cook | 24 June 2017 | 100 comments

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