Results 1-16 of 16 for ("top up" fees) speaker:Mrs Anne Campbell

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Conditions that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mrs Anne Campbell: ...voice will give out if I go on for much longer. I listened carefully to the remarks made by the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale, but have no clearer idea of what Conservative policy is on fees. I gather that the Opposition are opposed to top-up fees. Apart from that, however, no policy has emerged from the speech or the amendments. I wish to speak to my amendment No. 215; I...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be requried to be imposed by English funding bodies (24 Feb 2004)

Mrs Anne Campbell: ...system being introduced into higher education in a way that will be damaging for students who are considering what three-year course to take. That is why I object to the Government's variable fees proposals. I come now to differential income to universities, a point that was raised earlier. Some of the modern universities may have to charge lower fees to attract students to their courses,...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be requried to be imposed by English funding bodies (24 Feb 2004)

Mrs Anne Campbell: Nevertheless, some modern universities do not welcome the Government's proposals and my concern is that if those universities are not able to attract the same fee income as the top universities they will not be able to pay their staff as much and they will not have such good teaching facilities, which will lead to a second-rate tier of universities. That would be damaging for the UK; we have...

Higher Education Bill (27 Jan 2004)

Mrs Anne Campbell: I speak as a longstanding opponent of variable top-up fees. Indeed, I put my opposition on record as early as 1997. However, we now have a different proposition from the one that came from the universities in 1997, before the election in that year. The proposals are for capped fees and include considerable help for poorer students. I shall come back to that point because although the changes...

Public Services, Health and Education (3 Dec 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and for his willingness to engage in a conversation with Government and Opposition Back Benchers. If a university feels that it cannot charge the full top-up fee, but continues to charge the current fee of £1,125, how will it get extra money so that it can pay its staff what they deserve?

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Skills: Tuition Fees (11 Sep 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: Is my hon. Friend concerned, as I am, that top-up fees at some institutions and for some courses will deter the brighter students from those institutions and courses? What action will he take to prevent that?

Tuition Fees (25 Jun 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: ...to propose paying for middle-class students to attend university by restricting opportunities for students from poorer backgrounds, is something that I find totally abhorrent and morally bankrupt. Many students have welcomed what the Conservatives have proposed, but when they start to understand the implications of that policy, things will start to unravel fairly quickly. Students will...

Tuition Fees (25 Jun 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: My hon. Friend and I disagree on this subject. Unlike the Conservatives, I am not proposing that tuition fees be abolished altogether, because they do have a role to play. But I also believe that, if we are going to encourage more people from poorer backgrounds to attend universities such as Cambridge and receive a first-class education—I am sure that that is his objective as...

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: I am a long-standing opponent of top-up fees, but I must say that I would find it much easier to support the Liberal Democrat motion if I knew what their total policy was. To pick out one little bit of policy and to concentrate on it is to try to confuse both the House and the electorate. It is not telling us how the Liberal Democrats would get extra money into higher education.

Student Finance (23 Jun 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: ...Committee. Many Labour Members accept the need to get extra finance into the higher education sector, but will my hon. Friend consider the proposal, set out in my early-day motion 994, that tuition fees should be raised across the board instead of being differentially charged by universities? That would certainly achieve his objective of raising money and would do away with the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Skills: Higher Education White Paper (10 Apr 2003)

Mrs Anne Campbell: Has my hon. Friend had time to look at early-day motion 994, which has now been signed by 49 hon. and right hon. Members? It is also supported by Cambridge university students' union, in my constituency. Will she consider the view that the early-day motion expresses, which is that, if extra money is required for universities, a measured increase across the board in tuition fees would be...

Written Answers — Education and Skills: University Top-up Fees (19 Sep 2002)

Mrs Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what recent representations she has received about university top-up fees.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagement (7 Feb 2001)

Mrs Anne Campbell: Does my right hon. Friend agree that setting universities free of all Government regulation would mean lower teaching quality, spiralling student costs and top-up fees through the back door?

New clause 5: New Arrangements for Giving Financial Support to Students (8 Jun 1998)

Mrs Anne Campbell: Does the hon. Gentleman recollect that, before the election, the NUS was far more concerned about the idea of top-up fees, which his party said it would allow colleges and universities to introduce? They would have been a far greater deterrent to equality of access than the current proposals.

Oral Answers to Questions — Higher Education Funding (26 Feb 1998)

Mrs Anne Campbell: When my hon. Friend does meet the principals, will he bear in mind that top-up fees will deter students from lower-income families? Will he stand firm in ensuring that having no top-up fees becomes part of the Government's strategy?

Prayers: Oxford and Cambridge College Fees (19 Nov 1997)

Mrs Anne Campbell: .... Trinity is one of those that has managed its assets well, and it now has an income of around £19 million a year. It has been argued that, if redistributed, the Trinity income alone could make up the loss of the college fee. However, it is worth asking where Trinity's funds currently go and what areas would lose out if they were to be redistributed. In addition to undergraduates,...