Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies
Higher Education Bill
3:00 pm
Mr David Rendel (Shadow Minister (Higher Education), Education & Skills; Newbury, Liberal Democrat)
The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about two people, both of whom are eligible for fees. I was talking about people going to different universities but the point is even more obvious if two people, both of whom are eligible for the full grant, go
to the same university but take different courses, one that charges the full fee and one for which there is no fee. The two students, living side by side, will realise that one of them will be £8,000 better off than the other at the end of the course, even though both families are equally impoverished. The one who is £8,000 better off may then get a better-paid job than the other. That will create a peculiar anomaly and a great unfairness between individuals who think that they should be in a similar situation.