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

Mr Peter Bradley: ...the Minister citing other examples, including Surrey, Exeter and Imperial college, not all of which are cash-rich institutions, and there will be more to follow. They are offering students paying top-up fees a further £4,000, on top of the £3,000 available from the Government. That will give those students an income over three years of £21,000, and a repayment to make on...

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

Mr Peter Bradley: .... If that were still the position, I might be attracted to amendment No. 128, but what is now on offer is a firmly regulated market, if it is a market at all. We are no longer talking about top-up fees, but about top-down fees. We are no longer talking about variability, but about a fixed fee with a discount. In my view, which I believe is shared by others, most, if not all universities,...

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

Mr Peter Bradley: ...in higher education? That is precisely because no university, whether Cambridge, Oxford, Wolverhampton or Huddersfield, can afford to forgo the income that it would secure by charging variable fees—top-up fees or, as they now are, top-down fees, and fixed fees with discounts. Does she have any evidence that a market will develop in higher education?

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

Mr Peter Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what advantages in charging top-up fees will accrue to universities with (a) high levels and (b) low levels of students from low income backgrounds.

Written Answers — Education and Skills: University Funding (29 Oct 2003)

Mr Peter Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportions of income from university top-up fees are expected to fund (a) postgraduate research and (b) undergraduate teaching.

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Peter Bradley: My hon. Friend mentions the fact that the White Paper recognises the variable quality of universities. Can he explain how introducing top-up fees will close the gap between the best and the worst of those universities; or is that not the purpose?