Results 1-20 of 34 for ("top up" fees) speaker:Tim Boswell

Higher Education Bill: New Clause 5 — Abolition of tuition fees chargeable to qualifying student (31 Mar 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: I was about to conclude my remarks, and the hon. Gentleman in a sense anticipates my argument. The Government's safeguards up to 2010 are a clause thick. If they were so minded, it would take only a very short Bill to remove the cap, and I think that the pressures to do that would be irresistible. It makes no sense within the Government's own terms to have a cap of such a nature because it...

Higher Education Bill: New Clause 5 — Abolition of tuition fees chargeable to qualifying student (31 Mar 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: From the point of view of a vice-chancellor, is there any more plausibility in the Government's assertion about the firmness of their cap of £3,000 on tuition fees than there was about the Labour party's assertion before the last election that it would not introduce top-up fees? If those assertions are equally valid, does my hon. Friend think that the majority of vice-chancellors welcome...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 22 - Power of Secretary of State to impose condition as to student fees, etc. (12 Feb 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: I can tell him who the Minister was in 1992, and what he said about top-up fees: ''We have made it clear that we do not think that institutions need to introduce top-up fees. Moreover, we regard it as undesirable that they should because such fees might deter students from less well-off backgrounds.'' For the record, that was the right hon. Member for Newport, East (Alan Howarth). His words...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 22 - Power of Secretary of State to impose condition as to student fees, etc. (12 Feb 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...specific items of service. I will need to reflect on his words, but he has worried me more than reassured me. The inference of what he said is that if there were an alleged offence in relation to top-up fees and the teaching grant, it would be possible to override a contract for a particular bit of service, for example, to provide the national disability team or the plagiarism unit. That...

Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill (17 Dec 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: Exactly the same concern arose in relation to a recent order on visa fee extensions. Again, the Home Office had not consulted and the consequences were substantial. Is there not a real risk that the controversy over top-up fees will be supplemented by concern about top-up visa charges?

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Top-up Fees (17 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what arrangements will apply if top-up fees are introduced for the allocation of resources for student bursaries in situations where two or more higher education institutions make joint arrangements to facilitate access to their courses.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Tuition Fees (10 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether after the introduction of variable tuition fees in 2006, those higher education institutions wishing (a) to charge fees not exceeding the current standard flat-rate fees and (b) wishing to charge top-up fees for only some of their courses will be required to conclude a (i) full and (ii) partial access agreement.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Student Loans (3 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what action he is taking to ensure that student loans associated with top-up fees are available to students whose faith precludes the charging of interest.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Tuition Fees (3 Nov 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what action he will take to alleviate hardship arising from top-up fees for students whose family relationship has been broken.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Higher Education Teachers' Pay (29 Oct 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...the formula for payments for teaching by higher education institutions; and what representations he has received about the transition to any new formula and therefrom to a future regime permitting top-up fees.

Written Answers — Health: Student Nurses (Fees) (14 Oct 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to extend the present remission for student nurses from higher education tuition fees to top-up fees incurred after 2006.

Higher Education (18 Sep 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...than go on with the pleasantries, let us try to concentrate on the main issues that have emerged today. First, a brief word on research funding. Much has been said on that. I strongly endorse the feelings of the Select Committee about the lack of notice of changes made in the middle of the research cycle; the likely pyramid effects of concentration; the equivocation at the distinction...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Sep 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: Does the Prime Minister think that a majority of Labour Back Benchers support his current policy on student top-up fees?

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Higher Education (15 Sep 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether, subject to access requirements, universities will be able to charge top-up fees for Foundation Degrees.

Top-up Fees (16 Jul 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...education, with participation of young people rising from 8 to 33 per cent. or more. That is a major and historic achievement, which we have no wish to reverse. We did that without imposing tuition fees. The student loans that we introduced and that enabled us to fulfil that policy at considerable speed in the early 1990s were of a magnitude lower than the loan requirements implied by the...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: Student Finance (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if it is his policy that students who drop out of their courses should be required to pay a proportion of any approved top-up fee levied by their higher education institution.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Higher Education (26 Jun 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...advances in terms of the participation of disadvantaged students, which does the Minister think will have the greater effect on such participation—the aimhigher scheme or the imposition of top-up fees?

Tuition Fees (25 Jun 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...of going back into his shell, although he is not known for that, he delivered a speech that can only be described as doing handstands on the edge of the precipice. The Conservative motion was then supported, I think, by the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel), who is going to vote with us. Most of his arguments, however, were a rather dry exposition of his reservations and to some extent...

Tuition Fees (25 Jun 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...brief. Can he explain why, with the current ratio of university lecturers to students, there is a correlation between 90,000 students and 13,000 lecturers? Can he give a notional estimate of the top-up fee that would be required to generate an additional 150,000 university places—the number that he claims we are about to abolish?

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...right. The Labour vessel will go straight down the whirlpool, will founder and be lost without trace. However, I shall pursue those analogies no longer, if only in the interests of time. To pick up some of the points that have been made, I very much echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) said about the gap year. I hope that the Minister will apply...