Blog posts tagged "university tuition fees"

November 30, 2010 12:56 pm 1 Comment

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".

November 3, 2010 8:11 pm 4 Comments

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."

November 2, 2010 3:09 pm 5 Comments

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.

November 1, 2010 6:01 pm 3 Comments

Gary Gibbon looks at the floor, and ceiliing, for tuition fees following Lord Browne's review of university funding.

October 20, 2010 4:32 pm 4 Comments

Gary Gibbon looks at the small print of the spending plans for higher education - and finds there might be more cash to ameliorate the rise in student fees.

October 12, 2010 6:43 pm 4 Comments

Vince Cable has told the Commons that he is hesitating about Lord Browne's suggestion of no cap on tuition fees.

1:43 pm 5 Comments

Gary Gibbon learns the Liberal Democrats do not expect a rebellion by 30 MPs over university reform, despite NUS claims that they are lining up to protest.

11:23 am 1 Comment

Gary Gibbon interviews Lord Browne fresh from presenting his review of higher education to a clutch of top politicians.

September 20, 2010 4:06 pm 2 Comments

The Comprehensive Spending Review will spell out the size of the funding gap in higher education on 20 October. But you won't get the government's plan for filling that hole, it's reaction to Browne's report (published 11 October), until some time later, probably before Christmas.

July 12, 2010 6:56 pm 8 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on how the coalition government is giving serious thought to introducing a graduate tax, rather than a big rise in tuition fees.