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Lords Chamber
Part-time and Continuing Education and the Open University - Thu 05 Jul 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (CON - Life peer) get no support, including tuition fees and maintenance loans, for qualifications that are equivalent - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) I hope the Government will urgently look at whether it is justifiable for tuition fees for part-time - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) , to which many noble Lords have referred, largely the result of the huge increase in tuition fees since - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I can also report that the Minister took part in an online meeting with Open University students on Monday - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education and Society - Fri 08 Dec 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) granted.Fifthly, on tuition fees, the right thing to do is to cancel the trebling of these fees that - Speech Link
2: Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale (LAB - Life peer) for university students. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LDEM - Life peer) for university students. - Speech Link
4: Lord Agnew of Oulton (CON - Life peer) the National College for Teaching and Leadership and advanced-level online modules in areas including - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 28 Nov 2017
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I know that we have many debates in this place about tuition fees, but it is no wonder that they are - Speech Link
2: James Frith (LAB - Bury North) in the Budget for business concerned by the Government’s no-deal Brexit rhetoric; nothing for students - Speech Link
3: Liz Twist (LAB - Blaydon) education, other than for maths teaching. - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Labour would abolish university tuition fees, but there was no money in this Budget to do that. - Speech Link
5: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) Tuition is free in Scotland, but the Tories think that freezing fees at £9,250 per annum will bring young - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 22 Nov 2017
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Government—trebled tuition fees. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Government—trebled tuition fees. - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Good teachers and support staff leave.”That is what does for the morale both of teachers and students - Speech Link
4: Cheryl Gillan (CON - Chesham and Amersham) Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke), I mentioned online VAT fraud. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union and Global Trade - Thu 06 Jul 2017
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Helen Goodman (LAB - Bishop Auckland) If they agree to the import of meat with lower animal welfare and consumer safety standards and lower - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) It remains a strong goal for us as a nation, but also a dream of mine, to establish a British university - Speech Link
3: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) The importance of operating efficiently online cannot be over-exaggerated. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Health, Social Care and Security - Wed 28 Jun 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Soames of Fletching (CON - Life peer) I have a suggestion in this regard: the Government should scrap tuition fees for the core STEM subjects - Speech Link
2: Madeleine Moon (LAB - Bridgend) The gap grows at every stage in life, from play group to university. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) Board meeting papers of April 2017 show Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) I was interested to hear him say that he believed we should abolish tuition fees for certain subjects - Speech Link
5: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) Nurses have been forced to use food banks to make ends meet. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Justine Greening (IND - Putney) It will be used to increase the number of teaching hours for students. - Speech Link
2: Justine Greening (IND - Putney) This will mean that for them, just as for university students, our best technical minds will not be limited - Speech Link
3: Lucy Allan (CON - Telford) at Abraham Darby Academy, which is in Madeley in my constituency, and said that university is not for - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) jobs, nothing to increase people’s pay, nothing for people on lower incomes, and nothing for many, many - Speech Link
5: Helen Whately (CON - Faversham and Mid Kent) More businesses are moving online. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education and Research Bill
Report: 3rd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Mon 13 Mar 2017
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) The headmaster explained to me that when tuition fees were low, many Muslim students were able to attend - Speech Link
2: Lord Sheikh (CON - Life peer) Tuition fees combined with living expenses mean costs of at least £22,000 a year for the average student - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) this Parliament ends in 2020. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Nobody knows that until they have had a bit of experience of the university and the modules may not even - Speech Link
5: Lord Bradley (LAB - Life peer) For Manchester, direct income from international studentsfor fees alone—will be £200 million in 2016 - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education and Research Bill
Committee: 6th sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) sector, or internationally online. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) This was possible when tuition fees were low, but it is much more difficult with fees at their current - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) Under the current tuition fees system, a graduate starts to repay their fees only if they are earning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Mobility Committee Report - Tue 20 Dec 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Corston (LAB - Life peer) Teaching assistants are another example. - Speech Link
2: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) Some 44% of our students went to university, instead of the national average of 38%; 29% became apprentices - Speech Link
3: Baroness Morris of Yardley (LAB - Life peer) are in the middle than there is with students who go to university, but not Russell group universities - Speech Link
4: Lord Bird (CB - Life peer) They are teaching five to 11 year-olds. - Speech Link
5: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) increase in tuition fees over that period is without doubt a major contributory factor. - Speech Link