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Labour will scrap tuition fees for students starting in the autumn
Labour says it would bring forward its pledge to scrap tuition fees to include students starting university in England this autumn if it wins the election.
The party also says students part-way through their courses would not have to pay for the remaining years. Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would "lift this cloud of debt and make education free for all". The Conservatives said more students than ever from poorer backgrounds were getting into university. BBC Election Live: Rolling text and video updates Voter registration deadline looms All or nothing for Labour on tuition fees Labour announced it would abolish university tuition fees - which are due to rise to £9,250 a year in the autumn - in its manifesto last week. It is now offering more detail on the policy, which applies to students resident in England studying for their first degree at an English university, in an appeal aimed at people eligible to vote for the first time on 8 June. Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast that people coming out of university now face debts of up to £44,000 - a "gut-wrenching" sum which "hangs over them" for years to come. She said that by getting the top earners to pay "just a little bit more", Labour can "stop our young people from going through that hell of having that much debt". Put to her on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that axing frees would benefit the wealthiest graduates - who currently repay the most in tuition fees - Ms Rayner said: "You've got young people, regardless of their wealth, that are leaving university after working hard, they've finally got their degrees, they're going into their job for the first time, junior doctors etcetera, and they're saddled with debt for years and years. "Whether they pay back that debt or not, if you've ever had a huge amount of debt hanging over your head you know how that feels." The announcement comes as the deadline for people to register to vote approaches - they have until 23:59 BST on Monday to sign up. Access gap Labour said legislation would be in place for students starting university in the autumn of 2018 - but that a Labour government would immediately write off the first year of fees for those starting a year earlier. Labour also said it would protect people who had already graduated from inflation-busting interest rises in future years. It said the £9.5bn annual cost of abolishing tuition fees would be paid for by increasing corporation tax, and income tax for people earning over £80,000. Labour has also promised the return of maintenance grants to cover living costs. Education is a devolved matter, with only Scotland charging no tuition fees for Scottish students, although research suggests Scotland also has a bigger access gap between rich and poor students than the rest of the UK. Responding to Labour's tuition fees pledge, the Conservatives said: "Only by getting Brexit right will we be able to help young people get on in life and make the most of their talents." :clap1: |
**** they will burn this country to the ground with the debt they put us in.
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As the parent of a child who has already finished University this makes me rather angry. What about the debts my child was lumbered with?
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It would be gutting for those who have graduated but the debt has to be pegged back somehow, my son started last year so he won't benefit but at least future students will, I have always been angry that English students are saddled with the most debt so I would gladly see a return to parity for all members of the Union |
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Tuition fees were a great deal lower in 2010. I finished Uni in 2013 but now for all present and new Students,I'd love to see them scrapped at long last. It is what I really voted for with my first vote in 2010. Only to find one party the Cons, wanting to at least double them,the Lib Dems going to abolish them,then both those Parties, astoundingly voting to 'treble' them. |
is there anyone more dangerous than a man who thinks he's father Christmas with an unlimited credit card bill he can never ever pay
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Corbyn is in my city tonight.
I might go down and give him a piece of my mind. See if I can make it on to the news at ten. |
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The surplus run in the lead up to the 1920s is what led to the great depression. It wasn't the British Labour party who caused the crash of 2007-8, it was Clinton's attempt to run a government surplus (just like our government are presently doing). You have to ask yourself why the Tories want to run a surplus when they are the only institution in this country that owns its own bank. The government can indefinitely finance things like free education without obligation to ever repay. The Labour government wants to run a deficit, financed by the central bank (money we never have to pay back apart from taxes) and spend money into the economy. Running a deficit stimulates the economy and it gives us an educated youth that are not encumbered by private debt but like I said before; because the masses generally liken government deficit to their own household debt, they will continue believing that Labour will burn this country to the ground. |
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It's only sitting at about £11k (as I am Scottish so didn't pay tuition fees :hee: only living cost loan) but still. I'd rather not have to pay it :nono:. I had no idea that it abolishing tuition fees would cost as little as £10 billion, actually. With that being the case, I don't think there's any argument at all for higher education not being free. |
Makes me smile how the promises by Labour are believed without question and followed blindly ,they have never lied to the public have they?:joker:
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Promises that 5 years of hard austerity would clear the deficit by 2015,now up to 5 years more austerity needed but the deficit not cleared until 2025. Borrowing must be lowered,yet this lot have borrowed and added to the debt continually. Triple lock on pensions and added help guaranteed for 5 years in just 2015, now scrapped. A promise just 2 years ago that no tax rises for 5 years,removed now. Immigration down to tens of thousands,never coming anywhere near and even immigration from outside the EU is at 164,000 at least. A never going to happen top down re organisation of the NHS done. A policy to at least double tuition fees.turned into actually trebling them. Anyone that believes this Party and this deceitful woman they have leading them,do really deserve all the rotten things and likely more broken promises she will surely deliver with more power. I would never trust or believe a single word she says. All govts fail to deliver some things and get things wrong, this one must Just about break all records. I actually find it incredible people believe her and her hardline Cabinet and then always deride Labour. I actually believe more than not,that Corbyn will insist on delivering his promises. He sees a much different way ahead in the UK and will need to keep his word to get that vision implemented. At least his word,even when it causes him problems news wise,he in the main sticks to. |
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So who is going to pay for tutors wages? Books? Upgrades to the uni? Stuff like that
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Here for my last year of uni being free
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I would never be spiteful enough to wish that cost on future students. Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Austria and Finland and many other countries have higher education with no fees, so it's not as if it is some impossible prospect |
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Higher education is a privilege not a guarantee
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