Is the tide turning on tuition fees?
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By George Nixon and Tom Mitchell
Ever since Tony Blair’s government introduced tuition fees 19 years ago, the idea that a university education should cost something has been a staple of government policy. Which is why it makes it all the more interesting when the first secretary of state Damian Green, one of the PM’s closest confidants, and the Deputy Prime Minister in all but name, says we should have a “national debate” on tuition fees.
Aides to Mr Green, and the Universities Minister Jo Johnson, were quick to point out that this was not a suggestion of a rethink on government policy, but merely that it should explain that it’s either tuition fees or higher taxes. But over the last few weeks, culminating in Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner being granted an emergency debate in Parliament on the subject, the tide seems to be turning towards the possible abolition of tuition fees. And with the Lady who is for U-turning the embattled resident of Number 10, could this follow th...
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